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• n  Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934)
• n  an organism (person or animal) that sits
• n  a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home
• n  a person who poses for a painter or sculptor
• n  a domestic hen ready to brood

• The baby-sitter story broke in the Boston Globe on April 25, just as Michael and Victoria Gifford Kennedy, the daughter of ABC sportscaster Frank Gifford, were officially separating.
• When her careless dog sitter (Piper Perabo) takers Chloe to Mexico, the pooch is kidnapped by a dog-fighting ring.
• Birds have a baby-sitter problem too, and most of them have not solved it.

• Sitter
• Willem de Sitter
• babysitter
• baby-sitter
• artist's model
• brood hen
• broody
• broody hen
• setting hen

• stander

News & Articles

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• Whitefish man pleads guilty to raping baby sitter
  A 24-year-old Whitefish man has pleaded guilty to raping a 15-year-old baby sitter in November 2011 in a case in which his estranged wife also is a defendant.
  June 12, 2013 - Montana Kaimin
• Safe Sitter course slated for the summer at Florida Hospital Waterman
  Florida Hospital Waterman, will host Safe Sitter, a course designed to train baby sitters for girls and boys ages 11 to 14.        
  June 11, 2013 - Orlando Sentinel
• Trish Long: Flagpole sitter completes daring feat
  On Aug. 29, 1928, champion flagpole sitter Ben Fox started a 100-hour sit on top of the Hotel Hussmann.
  June 9, 2013 - El Paso Times

Quotes

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• Joe Mauer in New York Times
  They were going to take my parents but my parents felt like I needed to have a baby-sitter or something for the game,Mauer said at Yankee Stadium before Game 1 of the American League Division Series.
• Chris Webber in San Jose Mercury News
  I've been in the league longer than Jim O'Brien,Webber said. "I think he's trying to justify why he got fired or why players didn't like him. It's funny, because I was the baby-sitter that year to make people like him."