Word: custodian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...death of Alexandra, his three-year-old daughter, who died of spinal meningitis and polio. The child's death, said the grieving father, was "design-preventable." Always accenting the positive, he even turned from thoughts of suicide at 32 on the assumption that he was the custodian of one of the universe's vital resources...
...attention? Warner needs to clarify his character, if for no other reason that to draw our attention away from trying to figure out whether the back wall of the set is a bad paint job by the crew or an imitation of a bad paint job by the tenement custodian...
...division of labor. Writers were simply known as writers, those eloquent stubborn men who lived alone and produced thousands of pages in a thin, crabbed hand. Words were so valuable, so freighted with nuance and intent, that aphorisms could be written which illustrated the world. Pascal, that ardent custodian of language, would have endorsed Mallarme's notion that "Tout, au monde, existe pour aboutir a un livre." Having discovered that all worldly activity could be dismissed as a diversion designed to evade the actual emptiness of life, he concluded that there was no real reason ever to leave...
Eighteen teams from colleges in the Greater Boston area participated in the season opener which is named for the original custodian of the Wellesley College swimming pool...
...most weighing around 40 Ibs.-have tumbled, dislodged by weed roots or weakened by the vibrations from the 200,000 vehicles that thunder round the Colosseum each day and the subway trains that pass under its foundations at ten-minute intervals. "The Colosseum is not falling down," insisted one custodian last week. "It's just an old, old man who needs medical treatment...