Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Utah, stood before a banquet gathering of 1,000 at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria and explained that youngsters "expect a little discipline" and need to be "held to certain ideals." She has the credentials to back up her comment. In 56 years of marriage, she and her engineer husband have seen their six children become a university president, a company vice president, a top corporation lawyer, a mathematician, a physicist, a housewife, and have themselves become grandparents 26 times over. Obviously such a brood exemplifies "family life at its very best," and so the American Mothers Committee, Inc., picked...
...price be put on chastity? Yes, said a Tulsa jury. Mrs. Lavonda Hardesty was understandably incensed when her husband sued to annul their two-week-old marriage because he was not legally free from a previous marriage. Lavonda, 18, then sued her ex-husband for loss of chastity on which she put a price tag of $40,000. Last week the jury (nine women, three men) cut the price but went on to vote $500 in punitive damages and $2,000 in actual damages...
...plot has the simplicity of a short short story. A Southern mother (Maureen Stapleton) long since deserted by her husband, and subsisting on delusions of genteel grandeur, wants to secure a suitable suitor for her slightly crippled daughter (Piper Laurie) who has withdrawn into the reverie world of her collection of tiny glass animals. The restive son of the house (George Grizzard) brings home a "gentleman caller" (Pat Hingle) who arouses the girl's interest and then, guiltlessly, inadvertently, breaks her pet unicorn and -by revealing that he is already engaged-her heart...
...modulated her voice to a slow Pedernales drawl:'"I've been spending quite a lot of time in Washington," she began, "since Mr. Johnson and I became President." And how does she see her role now? "I want to say in all humility that ah made mah husband what he is today-rich." It was great. But was it good enough to get her a repeat of last March's dinner at the White House...
...power of Happy Days lies in its tremendous economy and concentration. Society is almost gone, having been reduced to Winnie, who is slowly sinking into a mound of earth, and her husband Willie, who is rarely seen or beard. Time has entirely disappeared; the sun shines brutally and endlessly, and silence is punctuated only by the shattering ringing of an electric bell...