Word: spinsterly
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...happened in Chicago, in 1965. There, just two weeks before Christmas, a spinster lady named Alice Byron Atwood died at 85, leaving behind a reputation for warmness and generosity...
...said the sixtyish spinster after taking a good look at us, and she slammed the door. It was discouraging to have our first canvassee react that way, but in a moment the door re-opened...
Thursday, September 21 IRONSIDE (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). In "The Leaf in the Forest," Raymond Burr as Robert T. Ironside ensnares a psychopathic strangler who preys on lonely old women. Eve Whitfield, disguised as a 70-year-old spinster, acts as foil...
...Secretary John Gardner has gathered five major welfare agencies* under one office, named the Social and Rehabilitation Service (SRS). To Washington's surprise, Gardner went over the heads of HEW's brightest young men and selected as the first boss of SRS a 67-year-old spinster who glories in the often maligned name of bureaucrat...
...cope with realities in the concrete jungle. Both antagonistic forces-a bunch of surly, underprivileged kids on one side and a school administration of monolithic obtuseness on the other-abound in stereotypes: the unloved Fat Girl, the sullen boy with a streak of buried brilliance, the love-hungry spinster, the platitude-spinning principal and his vicious, misanthropic assistant...