She worked as a cleaning woman, but says she and her husband would frequent nightclubs on nights and weekends.

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What should a cleaning woman do if she is asked to skimp on disinfecting rooms because sick patients are waiting in the halls?

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Kantor points out that when Michelle was an undergraduate at Princeton one of her aunts worked in town as a cleaning woman a circumstance that she did not widely share with her classmates from Andover, Exeter, and Harvard-Westlake.

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Being a well paid career woman, I have a cleaning lady.

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Over the next couple of decades, she developed a modest following with a series of mysteries about a librarian who investigates murders on the side, and another series about a crime-fighting cleaning woman and karate expert named Lily Bard.

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Maybe the loveliest image from this period is "East End Morning" (1937) a young woman on her knees with a scrub bucket cleaning a doorsill.

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It was a two-person job until the second cleaning woman left four months ago.

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"Everything suggests it was a pure accident where several temporary and unfortunate circumstances caused the woman to set the train in motion when she was cleaning, " Paer Andersson said in a statement, according to AFP news agency.

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DUNLAP, Calif. (AP) A lion that killed a woman at a privately owned Central California zoo escaped from a feeding cage and attacked while she was cleaning his enclosure, authorities said Thursday.

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