Word: roost
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like so many small winged fowl, the vast majority of Harvard students will go home to roost this Thanksgiving, leaving behind a campus full of empty dorm rooms and desolate dining halls...
Being a housewife is nothing to be ashamed of in Japan. Because most husbands leave their salaries and children entirely in the hands of their wives, women have wide-ranging responsibilities. It was not always thus. Traditionally, wives and children blindly obeyed the father as ruler of the roost. But postwar economic growth toppled fathers from that lofty post by imposing longer work hours that kept them from home. At the same time, modern appliances freed women from household drudgery. "Housewives can pursue their interests in a carefree manner, while men have to worry about supporting their wives and children...
...Epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis and syphilis have pushed the health-care system to the breaking point. As many New Yorkers are waiting for public housing as there are existing units, leading occupants to double or triple up in a frantic bid for shelter. "The chickens have come home to roost," says Madeline Lee, executive director of the New York Foundation, which supports community projects for the disadvantaged, "and New York doesn't let anyone escape from the reality of that...