Word: nook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with his thesis completed and five years at Harvard behind him, Labaree took a welcome respite from the arid Cambridge world and in his retreat found a teaching nook at Connecticut College for Women--long and forever in need of additional unattached male talent on their staff. "I had a little place in Mystic, just far enough from the 850 females on campus." Just far enough away, that is, to minimize social pressures from the 800 students, not to mention the faculty members...
...knows, for example, that Professor X generally parks for about an hour, he can put his car near the front of a lot, and if he knows that Professor Y spends the whole day in his lab, he can put his car in some out-of-the-way nook...
...visited by introduction (cost of a night of love: 1,000 zlotys)." Of 310 "notorious prostitutes" interviewed, 106 were homeless. On cold and rainy nights they committed petty offenses "for the purpose of being arrested and obtaining at least a temporary roof over their heads, a warm nook and a spoonful of warm food...
...however, who prefer to live outside the Houses although they do not fulfill the qualifications. These individuals find that the Houses, with their overcrowding, make it impossible to pursue studies or other work in peace, quiet, and solitude. Communal living is beneficial, but there are times when a quiet nook away from the world and roommates is more desirable...
...relationship became even closer after Margaret McTague Wagner died in 1919, when young Bob was just nine. Old and young Bob hiked together in the Lake Placid woods, made the first of Bob Jr.'s seven trips to Europe, traveled together on political business to every nook and cranny of New York State (Bob knows upstate New York as do few city politicians and-more important to this year's Senate campaign-upstate New York knows him). Recalls Wagner: "Sometimes Father would show signs of fatigue as we'd ride along. But the minute...