Word: husbanded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vanessa Venable owns the plantation, or 600 acres of it. The chimney is her haunting and triumphant little ruin. Mrs. Venable, a schoolteacher for 42 years and past president of the Prince Edward County N.A.A.C.P., lives with her husband, the Rev. H.R. Venable, in a brick bungalow on the site of the slave owners' house...
...domestic-partnership movement, says David Blankenhorn of the Institute for American Values, a Manhattan-based group that studies family issues, "just misses the whole point of why we confer privileges on family relationships." As Archbishop Quinn argues, "The permanent commitment of husband and wife in marriage is intrinsically tied to the procreation and raising of children." Despite the emergence of women in the workplace and changes in the traditional structure of family dependency, it is still necessary for most families to share rights and benefits in order to raise children and remain financially secure...
...long will the California rush continue? Real estate brokers expect the trend to intensify further before it subsides. A few immigrants, however -- just a few -- are turning around. Consumer finance representative Terry Maxwell, 35, and her husband John, 33, a wine-company salesman, brought their year-old child to Seattle from Orange County just five months ago. Recalls Terry: "We came here to try to live a simple life on one income. I wanted to be June Cleaver; you know, 'Honey, I'm ho-ome!' " But they soon became disillusioned by the surprisingly high cost of living -- including what they...
...U.N.O.) coalition last September, she has managed to improve on a thoroughly inept start. But her campaign still lacks both substance and imagination. Dona Violeta does not discuss issues. She appears. She smiles. She presses flesh. She departs. Her stump speeches are long on teary references to her late husband and short on almost everything else...
...restore normality to their lives. Hugo tore the roof off Betty Disher's home on Sullivan's Island, which some experts think should be off limits to development because of its vulnerability to hurricanes. She was unable to watch televised reports about the quake. Now she and her husband Johnny have made an optimistic choice. "We have decided that we are going to repair the house even if it is wrong," she vows. "We are going home...