Word: father-in-law
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Last March, as the White House rushed to craft its health-care proposals, Mrs. Clinton had to leave Washington abruptly to be with her ailing father. The victim of several strokes, Hugh Rodham had been failing for some time. With the end near, the President's 82-year-old father-in-law was admitted to St. Vincent's hospital in Little Rock, where he remained until he died three weeks later. "There was really nothing to do for him," says an Arkansas physician familiar with the case. "He would normally have been discharged after a week because that...
...takes a quiet place to digest the past nine months -- learning the biggest job in the world, coping with a hostile Congress and a hostile press, dealing with the suicide of a close friend and the loss of his father-in-law. Before coming to the Vineyard, the Clintons went to visit Jim and Diane Blair at Beaver Lake, close to their roots in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where they got married, taught at the university and had their first home. It was 14 years ago on another visit to the Blairs' that Hillary found out she was finally pregnant...
...certain age. At 44, Billy Joel has some lovely hardware: platinum albums and a shelfful of Grammys. He has a model wife (Christie Brinkley) and a daughter (Alexa, 7) worth crooning to sleep. Joel also has his share of bitter lawsuits, including one against his former father-in-law. So maybe he's got a right to sing some blues. He surely had the itch to write a song cycle; he is, after all, the last, finest heir to the songwriter tradition of soulful...
...When her father-in-law became Prime Minister, the young couple moved into 10 Downing Street and spent their weekends at Chequers. "The experience colored my whole life," she says. The PM doted on her, played bezique with her, kept her up all night listening to him brood over the delayed invasion of Sicily. Most of all he introduced her to anyone he received, and more and more Americans turned up. "It seemed natural for me to be entertaining General Marshall or General Eisenhower," she says. Among the visitors was Averell Harriman, then Franklin Roosevelt's special envoy...
...Father means son. (Thus, for example, Bill Wyman's son is marrying the mother of Bill Wyman's wife. Bill Wyman will soon be his son's son-in-law, as well as father of his father-in-law. It's easy to tell a girl from a boy, however. Boys are the ones with earrings and long hair; girls are the ones with trousers and short hair. "Mother," of course, is the worst name you can call someone. That is because mothers are, in many contexts, objects of worship...