Word: sittering
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...happened, Mrs. Peter Abbruzzese, a good friend and former Alexandria neighbor, was in the hospital, having just given birth to a girl. The Abbruzzeses had already decided to name the baby Katherine Elizabeth-the Elizabeth for Betty Ford. Susan Ford, who had been the Abbruzzeses' baby sitter for years, left her mother and delivered a present to the maternity ward-two satin baby pillows that Mrs. Ford had wrapped while awaiting her namesake's arrival...
...maximum that ranges from $17,000 to $35,000 a year (depending on the state's income levels), and pay funeral expenses for a driver killed in a crash. The companies must also foot the bill for "replacement services," such as payments to a cook or baby sitter who must be hired while an injured housewife recuperates. More important, payments must be made within 30 days, and tardy companies face heavy penalties...
Last October Richard Neumann, a Naperville, Ill., land developer, devised a promotional scheme for his new $15 million resort complex. He decided to hire a flagpole sitter to perch atop his resort's 45-ft. flagpole for a year. The perch was actually a 10-ft. by 10-ft. cabin complete with refrigerator, television, bed, stove, chemical toilet and telephone. The pay was not bad either: $1,000 a month, plus a $2,800 bonus if the sitter stayed up for the full year...
...even threw in a promise of a free honeymoon if the girl would come down after the ceremony. Jacobson would have none of it. After 156 days aloft, he gave up his perch and potential profits last week for the woman he loves. Neumann, already hunting for another sitter, was philosophical about Jacobson's departure: "Apparently he thinks a girl is more important than sitting on a flagpole...
...literary Lowry was founded on poetic rather than narrative talents. He was heavily influenced by the complex psychological lyricism of Conrad Aiken. Poet Aiken was to become Lowry's friend, surrogate father and even baby sitter. At one stage Lowry's father, worried about his son's disorderly ways, hired Aiken at $100 a month to keep an eye on Malcolm...