Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Already things had threatened to get out of hand. The Norwegian press snorted at U.S. rhapsodies about the "Cinderella" marriage, testily pointed out that Anne-Marie's brief stint as a U.S. housemaid (one year) was common European practice for well-brought-up girls, who often serve au pair* in a foreign country. Anne-Marie should not even be called a poor girl, protested one paper, because "everybody is poor in comparison with the Rockefellers...
...pair originally meant the rendering of service without money payment a system under which young European girls agree to work for room and board in another country to learn the language. Such girls are seldom treated as ordinary domestics, usually eat and travel with the family they visit. Anne-Marie reportedly earned $100 a month with the Rockefellers...
...guest who made a point of always sitting at one of Afaf's tables said: "Would you like to come to Kuwait and work?" She did not get the proposal at first until he made it clear-"as a wife." Dr. Yehia Omar Khalid introduced himself, the pair took the next i train to Alexandria to meet Afaf's parents, and last week they were married...
...Giants' leading hitter (.315), the National League's first baseman for both All-Star Games, and the team's most popular player with San Francisco fans. Puerto Rican-born Cepeda is roaming the daisies in leftfield, where he manages to hustle under fly balls despite a pair of feet so flat that they seem shod in wooden Dutch shoes...
Trapped. Author Warren's revelatory cave is in the Tennessee hill country. Lying near by, as the book opens, are a pair of boots and a guitar. Warren describes them at length, with a simplicity and precision that is somehow ominous-and a little too mannered not to be irritating. Their significance becomes clear when a country boy and his girl, wandering through the woods with their minds on country matters, see the boots and realize that they belong to the boy's brother. The news spreads in the nearby town that Jasper Harrick is trapped...