Word: placed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until, of course, I was left alone with the monstrosity. When the police arrived three consecutive mornings, I knew Rule Number Two had to be bent, a bit. I now live with the keys in the alarm system so they are in place when the accidental emergency occurs again. It defeats the purpose of having an alarm system, but it at least keeps the police away...
...most severe inconvenience, however, is that the owners have the gall to return. Despite the downfalls of housesitting, the attraction of a place in the suburbs is a drug, and I'm suffering from "Suburban Syndrome." Less of a problem than a sympton, I've been sucked into playing the role of a homeowner...
...place like Cooperstown, N.Y., which redefines the term "hamlet," 25,000 people is a deluge of humanity. And most of them came from New England to see the most human of baseball players, Carl Michael Yastrzemski, officially become a baseball legend...
...wreck, inhabited by despair. A report secretly commissioned by the Sandinistas confirms the country's plight: with an annual per capita income of $300, Nicaragua is possibly the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Unemployment may reach 30% this year. Those who have skills to sell and some place to go get out: more than 10,000 have joined the contra counterrevolution, and at least 250,000 out of the population of 3.5 million have fled, many...
...Hang a lamb chop in the window," was the advice legendary hostess Perle Mesta gave those who wanted to make a place for themselves in the capital. Craig Spence, a would-be power broker with a taste for Edwardian suits, took that advice to heart when he arrived in Washington in the late 1970s and hurled himself into high-intensity party-giving at his elegant town house in the fashionable Kalorama section of town...