Word: ann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Augusta National Golf Club, the President left the grounds only to drive to church. He was up most mornings by 7:30, had eaten breakfast* and was in his small office above Golf Pro Ed Dudley's shop by 8 o'clock. There Ike worked with Secretaries Ann Whitman and Helen Weaver, received Washington reports delivered by his staff secretary, Colonel Andrew Jackson Goodpaster. Only top business got attention: routine matters were put aside until the return to Washington...
...years Ann Smith's husband Ed gradually increased his liquor intake until he was drinking up to two fifths a day. "He was one of those alcoholics," says Ann, "who had to go to the end of the line." As Ed settled into the role of alcoholic, Ann played the alcoholic's wife: "I bathed myself in pity. I nagged. I turned the children against him. I was extremely self-righteous. I was convinced that Ed was doing this to me deliberately." Fired from his job, Ed threw a monumental drunk one Christmas season, came to in January...
...progressed through A.A.'s twelve self-improvement steps (sample: "[We] admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs") and became an enthusiastic convert, Ann found her life was losing what meaning it had held before. Playing nursemaid to a drunk had been a fulltime responsibility, the focus of her existence, but Ed's new purpose all but left her out in the cold. Where once Ed had been out drinking with his cronies, now he was sitting up nights with new cronies, helping to keep them from drinking...
...original six. Aaron's solution is remarkable for its ingenuity. He has contrived to inject a great, though not excessive, amount of movement into each scene, and the transitions from one to the next are, on the whole, smooth and easy to follow. This movement, together with Ann Hollander's superb costumes, must proivde all the visual effect of the production...
Sentenced to death. Chapin appeared before a committee of the governor's council sitting as a pardons board. He could give no motive for the double killing beyond the fact that the baby sitter, Lynn Ann Smith, had screamed when she saw the bayonet in his hand. As he told it: "She opened the door, and the knife was in my hand, and she screamed. I was pushed from behind, or catapulted, but nobody was there." Asked whether he wanted his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, Chapin muttered: "Just as soon go, just as soon go." The council voted...