Word: sitter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which does away with the need of dialing a telephone. By pressing a button on the device, which can be easily attached to the phone, a user can reach any one of 38 numbers. Besides its speed and convenience, the Name Caller provides a foolproof way for a baby sitter to phone police, firemen or the family doctor in an emergency. The gadget-about the size of a small bathroom scale-has been available for only four months in seven major markets, including New York City and Los Angeles, and already more than 50,000 have been sold at prices...
...Mallory, he was given back his possessions-a gray suit and $12.60 -and turned loose. Wandering from job to job, he finally found work as a baby sitter for a Washington couple. When they fired him, Mallory broke into their home and beat the wife, but the police could not find him. In 1960, police in Philadelphia arrested him for entering a house and beating and raping a mother of four children. Convicted of assault, he served another eleven years, emerging last October...
...does admire them. Shirley, Florynce, Bella, Betty, Gloria, Germaine, Kate. And when one of them comes to town, she will arrange, often with great difficulty, to go and hear her speak. She will make the complicated arrangements for the sitter to come and cover the home front for her and "liberate" her for a few hours. (This is the context in which that word is mainly used in her life...
...after the meeting has dispersed, after the ball is over, and the sense of excitement and communion begins to dim, she climbs into her car, station wagon, Land Rover, bus, taxi-and goes home. And it hits her. She arrives home to pay the sitter or what-have-you, to take over the children, to keel the pot like greasy Joan, to put the kettle on like Polly, to take up the reins of her existence. Only -something is wrong...
Gullible. Yet for all that, Irving seemed almost eerily unconcerned. He bounced out of the courthouse with a smile and handshakes for newsmen friends. He even left the two children with a sitter and took Edith out for a night on the town. One can only guess at the conversation between them. But perhaps, being a modestly talented novelist with the look of a sardonic Danny Kaye. Irving was actually enjoying the knowledge that the story he was living was far more interesting than anything he ever put on paper...