Word: husbanded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yuan has a husband who is studying for his master's at Princeton. She has a two-and-a-half year old son and must pay for a babysitter because she has no family members to look after the child-the custom in China. She cannot afford to come visit her husband in the United States, and does not have a phone with which to call...
Some of those who shopped the dozens of stalls where squid was being cooked and sold were recent converts to this saltwater delicacy. "I just began eating squid when I came to this fair two years ago," said Alicia Silva, who had traveled from San Jose with her husband Joe and their children Amelia and Joseph, all gathered around a picnic table as they breakfasted on golden fried squid rings dipped in tartar sauce...
...majority of Monterey's fishing community, were practically weaned on squid and never tire of it. Still others came because they love food fairs. "I'm heartbroken because they've canceled Brussels sprouts," said Judy Packard, who had driven six hours from Canoga Park, Calif., with her husband Brad. "We've been to 14 fairs so far," she said. Some of her favorites starred avocados, broccoli, artichokes and garlic...
Evelyn Waugh was not in the best of spirits when he wrote A Handful of Dust. He poured his grief at the dissolution of his first marriage into this tale of how dimly amoral Brenda Last cuckolded her dimly moral husband Tony. Waugh managed to cast a cold, wickedly glittering eye on these foolish innocents, and to write about them with bitter, controlled irony. Both suppressing and drawing upon fury and bathos, he produced a masterpiece...
...writes about marriage, about domesticity, about the wear and tear of daily intimacy, especially when his characters are drunk. And his stories are zingers. The titles set the mood of emotional frazzle: they are often either provoking shards of dialogue (Put Yourself in My Shoes, They're Not Your Husband) or freighted single words (Fever, Fat, Careful). Most of these tales are culled from four previous books, with seven new entries. Of the latter, Elephant is a grimly funny catalog of woe from the soft touch in a remorseless family that lives on loans. None of the new material, however...