Word: three-room
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...continuing the holding action met with an increasing lack of success once Jackson was out of the womb. He and his older sister. Delora, "were sometimes allowed to venture out into the world, which at that time meant no further than a fenced-off roof area adjoining our little three-room apartment...But, of course, I went out when I pleased." Occasionally, Jackson's determination to discover resulted in near-disasters, as when, in the interests of science, he dropped a book of flaming matches into a fifty-gallon drum of oil. The holding action of his sister, Delora...
Today, with his second wife Vickery, Oates lives quietly in the Hollywood Hills beside a swimming pool bigger than their tiny three-room house. An American-history buff, he would like to direct a series of films about each decade since 1920; they will show the cultural extremes that can exist in the same era. He is currently writing a scenario for the first one, about a Wyoming farmer who rescues from a plane crash an urbane couple modeled after F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald...
...says a Buckingham Palace spokesman -except that she is richer than most (an allowance of ?6,000 or $14,400 a year), her friends have to call her "Ma'am," and a private detective accompanies her everywhere. She also has decidedly more fringe benefits, what with her furnished three-room suite in Buckingham Palace, a fleet of helicopters available to whisk her here and there, access to the world's most famous and fascinating people and invitations to a constant round of elite parties and balls. "In a way," the spokesman adds, "she is a sort of superdeb...
...middle?the country's 17.6 million "salary men." They are the silent, white-collar backbone of the Land of the Rising G.N.P. Take, for instance, Tokyo Salary Man Iwao Nakatani, 27. He is typically middle-sized (5 ft. 4 in.), middle-income ($222 a month), middle-management. In his three-room, $6,900 flat ($833 down, $41 a month), Nakatani, his wife and two children all sleep in the same room...
About 50 student demonstrators- using a battering ram to force open a door- broke into the office of the President of M.I.T. shortly after noon yesterday and occupied the Institute's three-room executive suite...