Word: washerwoman
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...gaze of a framed portrait of his great-grandfather, a diamond prospector. He then sets off for a black township on a genealogical quest for the long-lost cousins he hypothesizes he must have, descendants of the illicit sexual liaisons that often transpired between prospectors and the black washerwoman who worked in the mining camps. A series of hastily strung-together clauses ensues, and the story abruptly terminates in Morris’ existential questioning in a township bar: “These bar-room companions buddies comrades, could any one of them be men who should have my family name...
...that his gift was intended to send a message to any specific person. Gates has already "dramatically increased the amount he has given," Turner says. "I'm not on anyone's case right now." His role models range from billionaire philanthropist George Soros to octogenarian Oseola McCarty, the Mississippi washerwoman who gave $150,000 to pay for scholarships at a local college. And, says Turner, he draws inspiration from A Christmas Carol ("the greatest book on giving I ever read") and the joy Scrooge finds when he finally adopts a more charitable attitude toward the Cratchit family...
...thousands limp into the woods to pass the rest of their lives crippled and ill. But other victims are more fortunate. Rescued by Britain's growing legion of hedgehog fanciers, they are gently bundled off to the country's only hedgehog clinic, St. Tiggywinkle's. Named for the hedgehog washerwoman of Beatrix Potter nursery-tale fame, the hospital is equipped to deal with every affliction, from broken bones to deflated spines. St. Tiggywinkle's wards house 150 to 200 prickly patients. Nearly all are auto casualties, though some are victims of dog or cat attacks, and one was admitted after...
...Later in England, Joyce read the Anna Livia Plurabelle section of Finnegans Wake with much better equipment. His eyesight failing, he read from a huge typescript, although he must have known the famous passage by heart. Here, his voice lilts and trips in a lively evocation of his Irish washerwoman. If Finnegans Wake seems impenetrable without guidebooks and glosses, its music is a revelation on the tongue of its creator: "Well, you know or don't you kennet or haven't I told you, every telling has a taling and that...
...were Portuguese dirt farmers who went to Africa looking for a better life than the miserable existence offered by the rocky slopes of northern Portugal. Few got rich. About 10% are black or of mixed blood. Last week Maria da Silva Caldeira, 48, a widow who had been a washerwoman in Angola, sat disconsolately in a hangar surrounded by her ten children. "I did not have an easy time in Angola, but this is worse," she said. "They have spoiled our lives...