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Word: sitters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baby Sitter. With cops ratting on each other so fast, it was hard for an honest hood to decide which law to work with. A grand jury went to work. Mickey knew things were out of hand when State Attorney General Fred Howser sent a special agent to be his bodyguard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Clay Pigeon | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...need no baby sitter," growled Mickey. Mickey never carries a gun himself, but he has confidence in the carload of heavily armed helpers who follow his Cadillac. Howser's Special Agent Cooper told Mickey's torpedoes to take in a ball game, or something. Mickey was in no position to argue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Clay Pigeon | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...stranger's house; they mean living on bread and margarine and vegetables . . . They mean that to eke out their miserable dole of $76 per month, the wife of three-score years and ten must compete with high-school girls for a job as baby-sitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God Pity Us | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...Headed for a night out, Mr. & Mrs. Ed Rumney of Lusk, Wyo. were unable to locate a baby-sitter in their home town. In their two-seat private plane they flew 28 miles to Lance Creek, found one, flew her back. The next morning they flew her home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...that actual physical touch will do what you want it to." At 45, Sutherland is one of Britain's best landscape painters; until lately he had never tackled realistic portraiture. When his first try, a full-length oil of Author Somerset Maugham, was finished last week, artist and sitter agreed that the gamble had paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Payoff | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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