Word: underwork
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...German settlers McKay takes with him to the Kansas Territory make music boxes that play Old Dog Tray. The young wife McKay takes with him suffers from underwork, a cold heart and a galloping case of pre-feminism. She also dislikes the residents of her husband's hives. Catherine "knew that the bees were women. They were dignified, dangerous, purposeful women . . . Their lives were all work, all women's work-housekeeping and foraging. They spent their lives in domestic boredom...
Working as free lances, financially insecure, alternating between overwork and underwork, with most of their "free time" spent waiting anxiously for a phone call to notify them of their next assignment, these private or special nurses are willing to reduce their own salary (in New York from about $7 a day to $5) in order to spread employment, have more actual days' work, have a chance to live like other people and rest after eight hours on duty...
...sixty three feet long and twenty six feet wide, rectangular in shape and with rounded corners. The sliding seats are to be placed in a rectangular boat, similar in general construction to an ordinary eight, which will be supported from the bottom of the tank by metal braces, skeleton underwork and water proof compartments, through which the returning current of water will pass. On either side of the boat will be a wooden platform four feet in breadth which will serve as a support for men getting in and out of the boat, and upon which the outriggers will...
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