Word: mate
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...school because of its militaristic bent, renounced his German citizenship and eventually entered the famed Zurich Polytechnic, Switzerland's M.I.T. There he fell in love with a classmate, a Serbian physics student named Mileva Maric. Afflicted with a limp and three years his senior, she was nonetheless a soul mate. He rhapsodized about physics and music with her, called her his Dolly and fathered her illegitimate child--a sickly girl who may have died in infancy or been given up for adoption. They married despite his mother's objections, but the union would not last...
...OCCUPATION:] Talk-show host [MARRIAGES:] 7 [SHORTEST:] less than a year [LONGEST:] seven years [ODDEST MATE:] Two marriages to the same former Playboy bunny...
...OCCUPATION:] Actress [MARRIAGES:] 8 [SHORTEST:] eight months [LONGEST:] 10 years [ODDEST MATE:] Larry Fortensky, a construction worker she met in rehab MARTHA RAYE...
...OCCUPATION:] Actress [MARRIAGES:] 7 [SHORTEST:] less than a year [LONGEST:] 11 years [ODDEST MATE:] Mark Harris, 32 years her junior, after a three-week courtship...
...homework and was a soft touch for almost any worthy cause, Einstein is emerging from these documents as a man whose unsettled private life contrasts sharply with his serene contemplation of the universe. He could be alternately warmhearted and cold; a doting father, yet aloof; an understanding, if difficult, mate, but also an egregious flirt. "Deeply and passionately [concerned] with the fate of every stranger," wrote his friend and biographer Philipp Frank, he "immediately withdrew into his shell" when relations became intimate...