Word: honeymooner
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...secretary for 26 years; in Washington, D.C. Brennan's first marriage of 54 years ended when his wife Marjorie died of cancer 3½ months ago. Colleagues on the court learned of the surprise marriage in a memo last week saying that the newlyweds had left for a honeymoon in Bermuda...
Despite these moves, several congressional leaders clamored for the sacking of Anne McGill Burford, who was known as Anne Gorsuch until her marriage to Robert Burford, an aide to Interior Department Secretary James Watt, two days before her appearance in Times Beach. But there was no gratis honeymoon period for her on the Hill. Investigators for congressional subcommittees probed charges of political favoritism, conflict of interest and mismanagement at the EPA. They began to focus on Burford's role in overseeing the Superfund, a $1.6 billion program to clean up the nation's worst toxic dumps. Some Administration...
...regime by an independent black state. The leaders are stylistic opposites: Nkomo, 64, plays the outgoing but wily politico, while Mugabe, 58, is an austere, scholarly man. In Zimbabwe's first elections in 1980, Mugabe trounced Nkomo, but nonetheless initially named his opponent Minister of Home Affairs. The honeymoon ended last February when Mugabe charged Nkomo with plotting to overthrow his government and sacked...
...embark upon an uncomfortable honeymoon train rides to visit their parents back East. The audience is served up a platter of cute little vignettes of the trip (most of which are featured in the previews). This fluff is washed down by the soundtrack's particularly insipid cocktail of tinkling piano chords that bob around like ice cubes in a wash of syrupy strings...
...Burnard Hughes and Jessica Tandy.) In her old home, Paula finds her vague dread about wedlock confirmed: her parents now live in a sadly senescent twilight, paying little attention to each other on the eve of their 40th anniversary. And Richard has to suffer sleeping by himself on his honeymoon, not to mention Paula's mother's well-meaning attempt to serve him grits in homage to his Southern background. The fledgling marriage, nurtured in the hedonistic sunlight of California, begins to freeze in the Catholic gloom of Buffalo. By the time they get to Richard's parents' in Virginia...