Word: nursemaided
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...idea. While itinerant musicians are apt to dally with the belles along the way, Dave is happily married and has four children (a fifth is on the way). Although a shady background was once almost essential to the seasoning of a real-life jazzman, Dave spent his youth playing nursemaid to heifers and earned his first money ($1 a Sunday) playing hymns in a school. Characteristically, Dave has several priests among his friends, including Boston's Father Norman O'Connor, who used to play the piano in a dance band himself...
...this, cries of "hear, hear " rose to a roar from the Labor benches; the Tories responded only desultorily. In the brief debate the Tories were uneasy and reticent. To a demand for more details, Eden responded with the weary patience of a worried nursemaid to a pestering child, begging his questioners to avoid pessimism until the full texts were published. To Eden's embarrassment the most lavish praise came from the Bevanites...
...hand in a foreign-policy decision. He himself tells a wry story of walking in St. James's Park with Eden and wagering that they could not get through the park without somebody's recognizing the handsome Foreign Secretary (nobody ever recognizes Butler). Sure enough, a nursemaid spotted Eden. "And I left him there," says Butler, "telling the pretty nursemaid about the mysteries of unrequited exports...
...flying tanker-transport to refuel his jet bombers in midair. To Boeing, which has built more than 600 of LeMay's six-jet B-47 bombers and is now turning out the eight-jet B-52, the big plane was also a lot more than just an aerial nursemaid. Boeing President William M. Allen thinks his new 707 has an even greater future as the first U.S. commercial jet transport, and has gambled $20 million of Boeing money that the airlines will agree. The first test flight is scheduled for August...
...They Got Married. Pa was a rebel, who had marched with Coxey's Army, and boomed about the docks, harvest fields and foundries of the U.S., indulging his love of fisticuffs and agitating for the union shop. Ma, who had worked as a nursemaid for a rich Cleveland family (and named four of her children after theirs before Pa caught on), yearned for respectability. Ma always said she had married Pa against her better judgment: "That man . . . wouldn't take no for an answer." Pa's story was a little different. "I was keeping company with your...