Word: honeymooners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Debbie Grodd, 24, and Stanley Lee, 28, of Stamford, Conn., reacted to the hostilities by junking plans for an Aegean honeymoon. "I know chances were slim that something would happen," said Grodd. "But Greece is close to Turkey, and Turkey is next door to Iraq. The last thing we needed was to wonder about it at all." Last week the Lees spent their honeymoon on the California coast...
Jake and Betsy are duly reluctant throughout all the proceedings. They had hoped for a nice, small wedding, not parental intervention. There are tensions between families over everything from the guest list (Jakes' parents want to invite business associates; Betsy's a sizeable number of Italian relatives) to the honeymoon (Paris, say his parents; camping, say hers). The "kids" are torn between allegiance to the traditions of their elders and allegiance to themselves. They don't, for example, want the phrase "man and wife" in the ceremony because it's sexist. They don't want the word "God" either, because...
Chamorro will have no honeymoon with the sizable Sandinista minority that considers her a class enemy, and she has little in common with the poor. Last January, when she broke her knee in a fall at home, she jetted to Houston for surgery. She returned home in a wheelchair that cost more than most of her countrymen earn in a year...
...interview right after his honeymoon, got the job two days later, and was in a U-Haul heading to Boston within the week...
...become almost a memorial site for the miners. One striker suggested that a chain link fence be erected around the camp to preserve it as a monument to the union's fight, hallowed ground not to be defiled. Another miner said he wanted to see a wedding, a honeymoon, even a birth take place in the camp. Others said they hoped the camp would be used for future union meetings after the strike...