Word: charwoman
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Quacks & Idealists. But somehow, Russian science managed to survive. The party might elevate such quacks as the former charwoman, Olga Lepeshinkaya, who insisted that a certain 1% soda solution could arrest the aging process, but most real scientists simply ignored her. The party denounced the Einstein theory, the Copenhagen school of quantum mechanics, and cybernetics as "idealistic." But the scientists used the work of Einstein and Bohr to develop Russia's atomic bomb, and the Soviet began turning out calculators as fast as it could. Physicist Peter Kapitsa, who was placed under arrest for refusing to work...
Other vices lead to other dooms. Gerald's professional colleagues brain each other in peevish academic pillow fights. His onetime charwoman, a raffish comic delight of a character, is picked up for petty shoplifting. Through his younger son's perverted pals, Gerald is introduced to a nether world of catty infighting governed by the rule of cadge-as-cadge...
...postal worker's widow, and now a charwoman on Chicago's North Side, Agnes Jones had to watch every penny. So she was delighted by a neighbor's suggestion that a dental laboratory down the block could make her a set of false teeth more cheaply than a dentist could. On her first visit to a grubby North Clark Street office, a technician examined Mrs. Jones's mouth and told her: "I have had a dentist for 28 years, and he knows his stuff." The lab man quoted...
Toward the end of the trial, the bishop began to wilt, his ruddy face gone sallow, his eyes vacant behind the thick lenses. As the prosecutor summed up-about the missing typewriter, the assumed name, the charwoman's scrap of paper, the fingerprints-the bishop clutched his chair, and glanced nervously from judge to defense counsel. Finally, last week, it was over, and all Sweden breathed a sigh of relief...
...Sure Loser. A team of linguistic experts testified to 32 different points of similarity between the anonymous letters and writings known to be by Helander. Most noteworthy: his peculiar abbreviation, "Nr:2" for "No. 2." A university charwoman testified that she found a scrap of one of the letters in Helander's scrap basket. Then the bishop's fingerprints were discovered on three of the letters...