Word: sitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard, which requires three achievement tests (most colleges ask none), the applicant can skip English if he is weak in it. "Where does [this] leave the teacher of senior English? Completely out of the running." And so Marson quit to avoid being little more than "a class room baby sitter...
...Atlanta census taker climbed to the top of a flagpole to count Flagpole Sitter Odell Smith, and in California one hard-working enumerator discovered a murder victim...
...paint the cover portrait, the editors chose one of Australia's most illustrious painters: William Dobell, 60. whose bold, imaginative style has won him the New South Wales National Art Gallery's Archibald Prize for portraiture three times. Painter Dobell found Prime Minister Menzies a "good sitter," reports that they chatted about friends, other artists and a mutual lumbago during their sketching sessions. Viewing the finished product, a friend remarked that Dobell had captured Menzies' "supercilious look." "No," corrected Dobell, "I've got his disdain-for-critics look." Gruffed Menzies himself...
Exchange Program. In Laramie, Wyo., when University of Wyoming Student Mrs. Bonny Rininger asked for a baby sitter so that she could take her final exam, her professor obliged, minded the baby while mother scored 93 on the exam...