Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934)
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an organism (person or animal) that sits
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a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home
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a person who poses for a painter or sculptor
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a domestic hen ready to brood
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Sitter \Sit"ter\, n. 1. One who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust.
2. A bird that sits or incubates.
Former state Trooper Richard Morrison was charged with having sex with a 13-year-old baby sitter in 1985.
The sitter's last name, Smith, made searching public records difficult.
Mr. Danforth asks those seated near him whether they know where he can find a baby sitter so that he can go out with his wife tonight.
The other children and the baby sitter were apparently not hurt when the girl was taken to the hospital, state police said.
Rouch's attorney tried to convince the jury that the story falsely accused him of raping a 17-year-old baby sitter.
When she said her baby sitter had taken her child, "the officer thought I was overreacting," Anderson said Tuesday. "He said I couldn't just accuse someone of a felony.
Then, last fall, Rubin and Lane contended the now-senile baby sitter confessed to the killings.
The Ravesis had at one time taken out a restraining order against Cole after social workers alerted them that the sometime baby sitter's attachment toward Nicole appeared obsessive.
The child was taken from Abbott's home Friday morning by a woman who had come to the house in response to an ad for a baby sitter.
Ola Weerts and a friend had left the children with a baby sitter and went to dinner.
He becomes the sitter while she prowls for prospective fathers, not realizing that Travolta is really a struggling flight instructor.
Mike's mother sometimes accompanies them as a baby sitter, and they've also used take-along nannies and commercial day care.
"It sometimes gets sad and lonely," said 9-year-old Ben Munyon, who has been cared for by a baby sitter since his parents were deployed to Saudi Arabia in August. "I just write them.
"My friend goes to the Baptist day-care center," Stephanie told her mother on the ride home from the baby sitter's one day recently.
Before the school shooting, Ms. Dann had set fire to a home and delivered tainted treats to two college fraternities and several homes where she had worked as a baby sitter.
Rinehart was Franklin County treasurer, a rising star in the local Republican Party in 1978, when his children's 13-year-old baby sitter accused him of sexually assaulting her while she slept on a couch in Rinehart's home.
Richardson's lawyers and the special prosecutor presented testimony pointing to baby sitter Betsy Reese as a prime suspect.
Gail Rodgers and her husband said they went to the house and talked to a baby sitter, who said Victoria Alexander was alive and out on a date.
A 2-year-old girl kidnapped with her baby sitter was released unharmed 12 hours later, apparently by captors who told a group of children "she's missing, take her home," police said.
He has insisted he did not kill the children, who ate a prepared lunch tainted with the pesticide parathion, and sworn affidavits implicated the family's baby sitter as a suspect.
If - as is likely - the registered sitter brings his or her partner, there is no extra expense for the owner, either in fees or expenses.
Today, the sitter, Martha Guba, is in prison, sentenced to 10 years for child neglect.