Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DEAR KERMIT," wrote Molly Gordon to her husband not long ago, "now that you are leaving your job of directing the federal budget, I suppose you will be taking on again your old job of directing our family budget. I read that you have attempted to steer a national course between profligacy and parsimony. Well, I have been trying to follow this middle-of-the-road course with our family finances, but I have discovered that it's in the middle-of-the-road that most of the accidents seem to happen...
...Gordon's tribute to her husband on the occasion of his exit from Government service wittily expressed a major fact of life: the U.S. citizen as well as the U.S. Government is deeply in debt-and not only deeply but permanently. Increasingly, tycoons measure their millions as much by what they owe as by what they own. The federal budget shows a deficit of $3.8 billion for fiscal 1965, and Congress has just raised the debt ceiling from $324 to $328 billion. Personal debt, rising faster than the Government's, is above $264 billion; this year it will...
Wife of house, wife of husband and mother of three...
Egyptian patrols found their bodies a day or so later. Not far away were Rimm and Hauser, also dead. "The sun is horrible," Gunther had noted on another scrap of paper, while Gudrun's last snapshots showed her husband and Wanderscheck sprawled in the sand, waiting for death...
...window or bartered for bread and butter. To what barbarian plane are we descending when we demand that it serve only the economy?" The educated housewife "will be able to judge a newspaper item more sensibly, understand a politician's speech more sagely, talk over her husband's business problems more helpfully, and entertain her children more amusingly if her brain is tuned and humming with knowledge...