11. The members of still another ensemble frantically iron their clothes, then put them on and strut through country-and-western line dance routines. 12. Their father, who had grown up poor in Arkansas, told them to wash and iron the clothes they had, Professor Farmer recalled. 13. Until three months ago, Veronique Pierre had a job ironing clothes in a textile factory here, earning the minimum wage of just over a dollar a day. 14. Decades ago, anthropologists found rural housewives used the rhythms when they ironed clothes by pounding them on rocks with sticks. 15. She ironed our clothes. 16. So here I am, banned from the kitchen except I still have to wash up and iron the clothes. 17. Since her husband was killed in the civil war two years ago, she had lived in a quiet village of Tamil farmers, ironing clothes for a living. 18. The maids-in-waiting put in eight hours a day for two weeks, learning to iron clothes, change diapers and deal with potential problems. 19. Wrinkled beyond her years by the sun, Leonizia Felipa Gimenez still uses a metal box full of burning coals to iron her clothes. |