Word: husbanded
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Help for Lincoln. Rowdies are hardly new to American politics. In the 1828 campaign, crowds castigated Andrew Jackson and his wife Rachel as bigamists because her divorce from her first husband was not final when they married. To forestall protesters in his bid for the Republican nomination in 1860, Abraham Lincoln was not above packing the galleries of the Chicago Wigwam with his cheering friends. Ulysses S. Grant's hopes of a third term as President were thwarted by pro-Garfield hecklers on the convention floor...
More than in most nations in wartime, South Viet Nam's women also serve-sometimes even as tactical consultants. Frequently a soldier's wife, on the advice of her astrologer, will tell her husband when to go into battle and when to stay home. The husbands listen. Officers' wives follow their husbands to the battlefield and sometimes share their fate. Duong Thi Kim Thanh was a former airborne nurse and South Viet Nam's first woman parachutist. She regularly accompanied her husband, Brigadier General Truong Quang An, to the front, carrying a commando's short...
Flying Saucers. South Viet Nam's housewives have a proverb that "a wise woman makes a mandarin out of her husband," and publicly Vietnamese women are usually models of submissiveness. At home, though, the Vietnamese wife is known as the "minister of the interior," while her husband is the "foreign minister." In practice, that means that he brings his paychecks home to her and she dispenses pocket money to him. She pays all the big bills. If they eat out, it is generally the wife who discreetly picks up the restaurant tab. When she throws a temper tantrum...
While Annabel decides how to deal with her career and with Billy, the author toys with her conscience like a sadistic cat. Spark's portrayal of human venality is ruthless. First, Annabel calls a press conference-where she is surrounded by weeping neighbors-to deny that her husband intended suicide in the first place. Like a small child, she tries out little lies and daydreams, but she reassures no one but herself that the truth can be contained. The author observes it all, and from the crudest angle...
...Duras uses all the fashionable techniques of the nouveau roman. Thus L'Amante Anglaise consists of three tape-recorded interviews conducted by an anonymous questioner and presented without comment, narrative or description. The first is an expository conversation with a cafe owner; in the second, Claire's husband Pierre gives his version of the crime; in the third, the murderess herself speaks. A typical session goes like this...