Word: households
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Firecracker) in a disconcerting Southern drawl. "I speak Vietnamese to him and he answers me in English," says Dr. Bui. Thien Nga, who at 3½ is nearly as tall as her brother, and Jo Ann, 2, both born in the U.S., compete for Bui's attention. The household also includes 14-year-old Loan, Simone's child by her first marriage. Bui's son Tuyen, 17, also from a previous marriage, is at an Arkansas boarding school that is run by the Catholic Church and has several black students...
...tell the players without a scorecard (or a freshman register), but Coach Frank McLaughlin hopes that his "kiddie-corps" will become household names for the Crimson faithful...
...house was originally founded as a residence for foreign students, and has been occupied for the past 15 years by residents sharing household chores and food expenses, Britton said...
...this couple, so prodigious in their ambition, self-deception and passion, first fell in love, she was the wife of Hans von Billow, a great Wagner admirer who often conducted his work. For a few years Bulow tolerated the affair, even though it brought two Wagner babies into his household. One reason for the unusual arrangement was that all three wanted to keep the scandal from the young King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who was their adoring, idealistic patron. Finally in 1868, pregnant once again, Cosima left for Switzerland to live with Wagner, and here the diary begins...
...falling apart of this household is seen through the eyes of Jack, 15, unattractive in a manner that only adolescent males can fully achieve. He has given up on personal hygiene, lusts after his older sister and spends most of his time alone in his room. Without any redeeming charm, he is nonetheless capable of evoking sympathy. Jack never deludes himself about the mess he has become; watching his sisters mourn, he notes: "I wished I could abandon myself like them, but I felt watched. I wanted to go and look at myself in the mirror." Long solitary walks take...