Word: honeymooner
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...honeymoon ended quickly for Portugal's new government-if, indeed, it had ever begun. Last week, less than three weeks after Premier José Pinheiro de Azevedo was sworn in as head of the Sixth Provisional Government, Lisbon was swept with rumors of impending coups by extremists on both ends of the country's wide political spectrum. First the Socialists, largest of the three parties in the Pinheiro de Azevedo coalition, issued communiques warning of an imminent leftist attack on the Premier. Almost immediately the Communists countered with an equally alarming communique suggesting that "when certain forces announce...
...front room of his two-bedroom row house on the main street of Bloxwich, a small village 5½ miles from Darlaston. Doug Jr., the youngest of the Peaches' four sons, all of whom work at Rubery Owen, was married that weekend and is now off on his honeymoon. For the first time in years, Doug and his wife Hilda face the morning routine alone, and the change is tacitly registered by the somewhat uncomfortable silence. After slicing Doug a piece of leftover wedding cake to take to work, Hilda gets ready for her trip to the neighboring village...
...fast-order nuptials left both friends and relatives of the newlyweds slightly stunned. "I was still on my honeymoon when I got the call to come home," revealed the groom's older brother George, who had been married in the same chapel just twelve days earlier. "Yes, it did catch me by surprise," confessed Alexander's father, Stratis Andreadis. "But then that's life. It's filled with surprises...
Last week, however, the newlyweds seemed more intent on enjoying a short honeymoon before Andreadis, a belated draftee into the Greek army, was called back to his part-time duty. "I so love that child, and I am happy that she has found him," declared Jackie Onassis as the couple prepared to leave for Athens. "At last I can see happy days ahead...
...circuit and a shot at the Miss Universe title in San Salvador in a month. On her first-ever visit to New York City, Summer talked about her victory ("My first thought was to thank the Lord") and her recent trip to Niagara Falls ("That's where my honeymoon is going to be"). Then, explaining that she had been named after Summer Olson, friend of the Steve Canyon cartoon character, the new Miss U.S.A. revealed a secret and rather quixotic ambition. Said she: "I hope some day to meet Steve Canyon...