Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took more sorrow to make Eleanor become Eleanor. In 1921 Franklin was stricken with paralytic polio. She nursed her husband, fought off his mother's inclination to keep him an invalid at the family home in Hyde Park. She also encouraged Franklin to seek the governorship of New York, which he won in 1928. She was less than enthusiastic about his pushing on to the presidency, but once he decided to run, she worked hard...
...April 1945. Eleanor Roosevelt followed her husband's casket from a white cottage at Georgia's Warm Springs, down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue, into the flower-scented East Room of the White House. "Is there anything I can do for you?" asked the new President, Harry Truman. Replied Mrs. Roosevelt, "No, but is there anything we can do for you?" When she returned home to Manhattan the following week, she dismissed waiting reporters with four words: "The story is over...
...causes but by her indefatigable heart and her humanity. The United Nations, in a rare unity, hushed its debates for a minute in her honor, and her devoted friend Adlai Stevenson spoke her epitaph: "Her glow had warmed the world." The three Presidents who had succeeded her husband in office were at the graveside as she was buried beside Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the rose garden at Hyde Park...
Last March they were on location in Hong Kong, and the resulting affair blazed through Korea's hot summer. Kim quietly divorced her husband, a director, a month ago. But Choi's wife, a Korean actress, brought charges of adultery. Still fired by the puritan zeal that Korea's new rulers made fashionable after their May 1961 coup, the prosecutor sent the pair off to Seoul's grim Sodaemun Prison in handcuffs. The news was a shocking disappointment to their fans. "Their immorality only evokes Hollywood," wrote one angry reader to a Seoul paper. "The helplessly...
...flew into a vicious downdraft over the Apuane Alps, plummeted sickeningly before the pilot regained control. A stewardess was knocked unconscious and six passengers who had failed to fasten their seat belts were battered against the bulkhead. Among the most seriously injured: Italian Movie Producer Carlo Ponti, 48, husband-in-fact (if not by law) of Cinemactress Sophia Loren, 28, whose badly cut right ear required 14 emergency stitches and 45 extra ones in plastic surgery. "Frightening," said Ponti, his head turbaned in bandages. "Luckily, Sophia wasn't on board...