Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taking up a domestic life of her own, Mrs. Pat Nugent, 19, set up housekeeping with her new husband in a cozy little duplex house in Austin, complete with automatic dishwasher, air conditioning, three closed-circuit television cameras to scan the yard outside, and a charming little cubicle in the carport for the Secret Service. As soon as Luci and Pat had stowed their luggage at home, they set off for the supermarket to load up on frozen pizzas, dill pickles, potato chips and other staples for the pantry. Pat whistled in disbelief when the checker rang up the inflationary...
...Birthday Table. As for Johnson himself, the best that the week had to offer came the following day. It was his 58th birthday, and he celebrated it in the way he likes best-down on the ranch. Temporarily relaxing her watchfulness over her husband's expanding waistline, Lady Bird set a birthday table that included barbecued beef, baked beans, two cakes and homemade peach ice cream. "No hill-country rancher could ever have a better birthday," said the President. "I just can't feel sorry for myself...
...Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that a wife cannot recover damages for the loss of her husband's sexual potency, even though the state's law permits a husband to recover for the "loss of his wife's consortium."Mrs. Howard E. Krohn of Nashville had filed a $250,000 damage suit against the makers of the drug triparanol on the ground that it had rendered her husband impotent. The court ruled that in Tennessee an irate wife is entitled to her day in court only if she has suffered a personal attack, such as slanderous gossip...
...Glens Falls, N.Y., Mrs. John C. Kenny embezzled more than $40,000 between 1959 and 1961. She was sentenced to a year and a day in prison, and because she filed joint tax returns with her husband, the Internal Revenue Service assessed the couple for extra taxes on the amounts which had been stolen but unreported. John Kenny protested that he had not participated in the thefts and did not owe the Government a penny. Not so, ruled the tax court, which held him jointly liable because he had signed the tax returns with his wife during the years...
Master Nagger. Although he married at 39, and lived with his wife for 15 years, Bennett was neither a happy husband nor a good one. Compulsively punctual, always suffering torments from a variety of ailments from neuralgia to colic, he begrudged every moment spent away from his work. He was a master nagger; once, when his wife moved the piano in the living room by a few inches, he wrote her a four-page letter of reprimand...