Word: sitter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevertheless, efforts to maintain the boycott are difficult for even the most intransigent white holdouts. Working parents, such as Janet and Steve Pickerell, are typical. Janet, a secretary, is away from home all day. Steve, a pipefitter, works nights, so he is baby-sitter and teacher for their son Mark, 7, during the day. Mrs. Pickerell is worried, however, because young Mark has little to do while his friends are in school. Says she: "I don't know how long we can hold out. He's bored to death. It's getting harder every...
...guard. "I think the Radcliffe athletic department isn't really ready for varsity sports. We need full-time coaches, ones that demand that all the members of a team come to practice, and not ones that don't come to practice themselves if they can't get a baby sitter. Radcliffe athletes are serious people, and that is just beginning to be recognized...
...allowed, for instance, the rare opportunity to witness the game from all angles of Fenway Park, as he is constantly on the move, burning a trail of peanut shells from the left field foul line to the right field grandstand in search of a better place to sitter, stand. In so doing, he no doubt gets more exercise than the players...
...Friday night and 30 married couples have arrived at the Ramada Inn in Woburn, Mass., where they will spend the weekend without looking at a clock, phoning the baby sitter back home, watching TV, or even stepping outside the motel. Under the guidance of three couples who have gone to similar weekend sessions and with the help of a Roman Catholic priest, the 60 men and women will spend 44 hours quizzing themselves and each other about their relationships. Most of them are there because they want their marriages to be better or because friends who have undergone Marriage Encounter...
...certainly not a youth picture, and it hardly seems the sort of thing that would induce Mom and Dad to spring for a sitter and a night on the town. Maybe the producers were trying to crash the senior-citizens market, give the old folks a thrill and a little grue some encouragement against the insults of aging. A notion like that conjures up entertaining visions of audiences full...