Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson had long toyed with the idea of renouncing a second term. After his election in 1964 by the greatest popular margin in history, Johnson and his wife discussed the possibility of his retirement. According to White House Press Secretary George Christian, Lady Bird "thought it best that her husband step out after one elected term?but she didn't pressure him. She's not that kind of woman." She did nudge him from time to time. During one visit to retired Congressman Carl Vinson, who returned to Georgia after 50 years in the House, she said: "See, Lyndon, there...
...specifics of the case were that Mrs. Thomas became pregnant shortly after her Marine husband left for over seas duty. Her husband, nonetheless, incorrectly believed that the child was his. Two nights after she brought her new son home from the hospital, the baby was discovered with horrible burns in his mouth. His gums had been eaten away by an unknown "caustic solution," and so had his larynx and lungs. After 16 days in the hospital, he died. Who would have killed him except his mother? asked the prosecution; her motive was that she was afraid her hus band would...
...woman with a sick six-month-old baby is turned away from a private hospital in Houston because her husband does not have $50 for a deposit. The baby dies on the way across town to an other hospital. A New York doorman suffers a heart attack while on duty; he is refused emergency treatment at a hospital across the street because it lacks cardiac emergency equipment, and he must risk death attempting to reach another hospital...
Falsies have even been responsible for saving marriages. One young Los Angeles husband tried three times to grow a beard, and three times he had to shave it off because his wife hated it when she kissed him. Now that the husband has finally compromised with a part-time mustache, all is bliss...
...from a '30s scenario. The co-founder of the fashion firm Evan-Picone, Evans was lounging by the pool of the Beverly Hills Hotel one day in 1956, when Norma Shearer gave him the eye; she just knew that he was the ideal man to play her late husband, Irving Thalberg, in a movie called The Man of a Thousand Faces. For three years Evans sleepwalked his way through the kind of pretty-boy roles that George Hamilton now gets, then went back to fashions. In 1959, Revlon purchased Evan-Picone in a deal that eventually made Evans rich...