Word: servant
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...days before he asked me to accompany him to Barnwell on an evening after Hall, just as quietly as a compatriot might have asked me to take a drink." The ease with which his peers exploited women reflected their view that "a shop girl, work-woman, domestic servant, and all females in similar positions, were expressly designed for the amusement of gentlemen, and generally serve that purpose...
...there’s nothing about Caroline Kennedy herself that should worry or anger many New York voters—if anything, quite the opposite is true. As the author of several acclaimed books on civil liberties and a prominent Manhattan attorney, Ms. Kennedy would be an ideal public servant. But through no fault of her own, she could nevertheless make her Senate seat into another Kennedy stronghold, and a “stronghold” is simply not something that should exist in American politics. If chosen, Kennedy alone will not be the junior senator from New York...
...themselves. I was just the spatula. I don’t look for it—it’s there. You can just see. 3. FM: How then do you see your role as a teacher?JK: I think the teacher is a kind of servant, the best kind of servant. I’m looking to be of service, to teach, but sometimes up it comes—a brilliant writer. It’s a thrilling thing to see a young person coming up in this world of writing that is so ancient. It?...
...That's not the case in India, even in the capital of New Delhi, which supplies about 200 million gal. a day less than its population requires. Water is a worry, not just for poor Indians but also for middle-class ones, like R.K. Sachdev, a retired civil servant who lives with his wife in an upscale development in the city's southwest. "Every morning when I get up, my main worry is water," his wife Kusum says. Near the entrance to their flat, they keep a 265-gal. storage tank--locked to prevent theft. The couple are awake...
...focus of blame landed on Pakistan - a knee-jerk first reaction, rather than one based on any solid evidence. "It is a tragic incident, and we also felt bad about it as Pakistan is going through the same problem," says Abdur Rashid, a 67-year-old retired government servant in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad. "But it was really unfortunate to see that even before the operation [to clear out the attackers] was finished, the Indian government stated that Pakistan is involved. It sounds that the entire incident was concocted to punish Pakistan." See images of Mumbai after the siege...