Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extend my deepest sympathy to Mme. Nhu on the death of her husband and brother...
...deepest sympathy to Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu and her family. I wish to remind those who vilified her late husband and brother-in-law that they were perhaps far less guilty than those who set themselves up as their judges. Put them beside a Khrushchev, a Tito, or even a Chiang Kaishek, and they were like innocent lambs. May God grant them eternal rest...
However deep her private grief over the deaths of her husband and brotherin-law was, Mme. Nhu wept in public only once. As she and her daughter left the hotel for Chase's home, they were engulfed in an army of television cameramen and photographers. Policemen battered a path through the crowd to her car. Mme. Nhu rushed in and slumped in the back seat, then turned and sobbed helplessly in Le Thuy's arms. A short time later, at the entrance to Chase's four-acre estate, the same squad of camera carriers blocked the driveway...
...heads, composing frame after intimate frame through which his unholy trinity inevitably reveal themselves. Every twitch of an eyelid tells a small, stinging truth. Man, woman and boy abrade one another until a climactic fight for possession of the knife abruptly exposes the very quick of character. Despising her husband, in his absence the cool young wife gives herself to the boy, dryly observing: "You're just like him-only half his age, weaker and more stupid." In a cruel final scene, as husband and wife head homeward, the man pulls his car up to a crossroad, immobilized...
...eyed Leela Naidu) is disrespectful-when he criticizes her, she talks back. "They come like lambs and before long they are tigers at your throat," a friend explains. Finally, Prem hits on a plan: "I will send for my mother. She will teach you how to talk to your husband...