Word: honeymooner
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...live on barley and millet but they love apricots. In Hunza, for instance, it was long customary for a pretty girl to refuse to marry anyone who lived in one of the few places where apricots did not grow. After marriage (mothers-in-law often went along on the honeymoon) wives would practice a unique form of birth control: if a woman became pregnant she stayed away from her husband's bed until the child was weaned two years later. A Hunzarwal saying goes: "Better a home with no roof than one with no view...
...unionists, would realize what impossibly strange bedfellows they made. The inevitable splintering of the Peronist movement, whose fundamental divisions were clear long before Perón died, was briefly forestalled by a period of intense national mourning that united Argentines. As the current violence attests, the widow's "honeymoon" is now definitely over...
...often taken--reasonably enough--as evidence that it was unwilling to think for itself, uninterested in the real events happening around it, or simply dishonest. Few critics seem to have drawn similar conclusions about today's analysts. Instead, there've been considerable, and badly needed, warnings against a permanent honeymoon. The New York Times's Russell Baker warned that reporters were inflating Ford to a superhuman figure; in the September issue of [MORE], the Times's William Shannon chimed in with admonitions against letting Ford off easy or getting overly cozy with his friends...
Motivated primarily by genuine compassion for Nixon, Ford took a superficial look at the other factors?the legal ramifications, the political impact, the public reaction?and failed to think them through. Buoyed by his Honeymoon reception and seeking a Trumanesque reputation for decisiveness, he acted immediately and impulsively on his determination to pardon Nixon. If eventually he was going to pardon him, as he had in effect indicated he would in his Aug. 28 press conference, then why not now? A diehard defender of Nixon's innocence until the ample contrary evidence became unchallengeable, Ford by this theory appreciated neither...
...Times. "We're not a bunch of little Nells who were innocently seduced by the President. It's just the first time that Ford had a dustup with the press. There's bound to be more." Adds Emmet Dedmon, editorial director of the Field newspapers: "A honeymoon can last only until a President's first major decision...