Word: grooming
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...report on the disintegrating corporate relationship between Firestone and Ford [BUSINESS, June 4], we ran a photo of the 1947 wedding of Martha Firestone and William Clay Ford. In the photo, one bridesmaid was identified as Mrs. Walter B. Ford (niece of the groom) and one groomsman was identified as Walter B. Ford (nephew of the groom). Mrs. Walter B. Ford is not the groom's niece but his sister, and Walter B. Ford is not the groom's nephew but his brother...
...reported "the rumor is she's his ex-wife," and on June 15 the New York Times finally got the facts right in a blurb, after buying the falsehood in an earlier article. In the Detroit area press, it's old news that the Whites were once bride and groom. But the myth is still at large: The New Yorker, usually considered fact-checking's vaunted ideal, refers to the White Stripes in its current issue as "two siblings from Detroit...
...Winston Groom Author, Forrest Gump To try to tell someone who wasn't there about your experiences is like trying to describe the color blue to a blind man. I served as a lieutenant with the 4th Infantry Division. I was a psychological-warfare officer. I didn't say anything about my war experiences for years. I remember going out to the scene of a big fire fight?40 to 50 bodies, horribly mutilated, that had been dragged into this field. My job was to take pictures of them. The pictures would be put on leaflets that would be dropped...
...thrown back to the days of negotiating for a later curfew when my mother pronounces that my groom David and I should make an early grand exit from the wedding. We suggest we just might want to stay out late at our wedding and have fun with our friends. Six months ago my mother and I rehashed a seventh-grade Guess jeans drama when I assured her that all brides are wearing strapless dresses and it is not inappropriate. I actually seem to be getting worse at this. The outcomes? In 1986, age 12, yes to the jeans...
During a recent open house, guidance counselors from across Fairfax County toured the 18 career clusters at Chantilly Academy (fcps.k12.va.us/chantillyacademy), popping into the Animal Sciences classroom to watch students groom dogs and visiting the Hotel Management and Dental Careers courses. The counselors then settled into an annex off the high school cafeteria, where students in Culinary Arts served a four-course meal...