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Word: sitter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choices are at stake. Jeanette Dice, 26, and her husband Brian, 31, both took the New York sergeant's exam last week. If she passes, says Dice, "I could take off for a year, have a baby, then go back to work and have enough money to hire a sitter." Otherwise? "I might look somewhere else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Centurions With Sweaty Paws | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...begins. As you settle into your seat, the Maroon cartoon studio logo flares onto the screen, announcing Who Framed Roger Rabbit, starring Baby Herman and Roger Rabbit. For a few minutes of inventive mayhem, the infant crawls toward every lethal kitchen appliance while his harried hare of a baby-sitter works frantically to keep things from blowing up. It's the comedy of anticipated disaster -- the nightmare anxiety that propelled so many of Avery's slapstick tragedies -- and it works just fine. Too fine: the opening cartoon upstages the movie that emerges from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Creatures of A Subhuman Species WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...Price of Washington, catastrophic health care means looking after her husband James, 78, a retired federal worker who has suffered for ten years from Alzheimer's disease. He can neither bathe nor dress himself. She frets about him constantly, and about how she will pay the doctor and the sitter who comes twice a week so she can go out to buy groceries. Even the $25 a month she pays for diaper-like underpants for her incontinent husband is a drain on ( their dwindling life savings, now less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dose of Stronger Medicine | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

...wanted to question her about making threatening telephone calls, and in March she had been picked up in Madison, Wis., for shoplifting. On Friday morning Dann delivered poisoned food to several homes and college fraternities. She then set fire to a house where she had worked as a baby- sitter, temporarily trapping her former employer and two children in the basement (they escaped by smashing a window). Dann drove six blocks to the school; she may have been searching for her employer's other two children, who were away on field trips. Left behind in the bloody school bathroom after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illinois: One Lunatic, Three Guns | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...counselors have a pretty good pitching rotation. "I never really knew what it was like to pitch a sober inning," says Ryne Duren, the Yankee reliever of the early '60s. "When I was with the Yankees in the mid-'70s," says Sudden Sam McDowell, "they hired a baby-sitter to stop me from drinking. All that did was make it a challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Heady Mix: Booze and Baseball | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

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