Word: erma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from his modest suburban house in McLean, Va., to his office, where he is in business by 7:45. He then begins a breathless round of staff discussions, committee meetings, and appointments. The majority leader always eats lunch in his office, usually a bologna sandwich prepared by his wife Erma. Says he: "It saves time...
...close friends in Washington and never takes a vacation. Says he: "I wouldn't enjoy going away and doing nothing." His scant leisure time is spent with his wife, watching TV news and interview programs. Erma, also an energetic worker, enjoys visiting their two married daughters in the Washington area and fussing over her six grandchildren...
Total Amateur. But when she allows herself to look back on how things were during the three years it took to write Ordinary People, cleverness and common sense struggle with a kind of Erma Bombeck rue. "Nobody had any underwear," she recollects. "Truth to tell, my family is very tolerant. But some days I'd look at the house and think it was a mess and say to myself 'Why are you doing this?' " She wrote in the mornings when the house emptied, never at night. And rarely in the summer because the boys were...
...Erma E. Baer...
...Erma, however, would not have wanted to be there to receive the accolade...