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Word: babysitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is not a plea for Harvard to babysit us. It is a plea that the administrators recognize us as adults capable of improving the community in which we live. Commencement speakers say we will leave Harvard to change the world. I wanted to change Harvard first, because for four years it was my world, and because it needed changing...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: No Bok Payments | 12/13/1989 | See Source »

...agrees to take the fall--and endure a three-to five-year prison sentence--in place of a mobster accused of murder. In return, he is to be paid enough money upon his release to realize his lifelong dream of owning a boat. Inept mob gofer Jerry (Mantegna) must babysit Gino until the court date. The plot turns on whether Jerry can keep Gino from changing his mind and escaping from his Chicago apartment before the trial...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Where the Snide Talk Ends | 10/21/1988 | See Source »

...surely Harvard can find better ways to shower appreciation on its students than by making them morally obligated to babysit each other...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Spence's Snitches | 10/19/1985 | See Source »

...little kids of the poem were the only children of Danny and Semadar Haran, for whom Hadara, now 15, used to babysit. Einat, 5, and Yael, 2, were both killed in April 1979, when terrorists entered Nahariya from the sea in a motor-powered dinghy and attacked a four-story apartment house. In one apartment they found Einat and her father, whom they took back to the beach. Danny they shot to death, and when Israeli forces approached, one of the terrorists picked up Einat by the feet and cracked open her head on a rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: What Good Is This Revenge? | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

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