Word: mother-in-law
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...women was the trauma of both living and breaking with traditional roles as wives, lovers and mothers. Marguerite was living in the South, working on dead-end jobs, when she decided to return to school. Her son, Kristopher, was born three weeks before her first final exams at a small southern college, and his birth marked a change in Marguerite's life. "I wasn't aware of my abilities, and then I found myself doing impossible things. My mother-in-law couldn't believe I was going to school. She thought that was an awful thing for a mother...
Walker combines the oldtime lobbying techniques of banter and booze with an ability to explain complex issues on the back of an envelope. Jerry Ford once wrote him: "You can explain economics so that even somebody's mother-in-law can understand...
Jimmy Carter and his wife and his mother-in-law began in the early morning of last Thursday, and by dusk they had been from Gulp's Hill at Gettysburg (also stopping not far from the battlefield for a friendly visit at the home of Mamie Eisenhower) to the site of John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry. The President leaped up on the rocks, put field glasses to his eyes to peer into the woods and gazed on the weathered monuments. Was Lee trying to save ammunition at Gettysburg? he asked. Where was the wheatfield...
Last week Perera made no mention of the check in rapping Brooke's knuckles for his "mistake" in mingling his mother-in-law's money with his own and for "inadequate and careless bookkeeping." The judge offered Remigia a new trial and ordered Brooke to pay her court costs and attorney fees for the hearing. But Perera stopped short of finding that Brooke was in contempt of court or had "deliberately" misled his wife. Mrs. Brooke has ten days to make up her mind about a new trial. Whatever she decides, Brooke's chances of re-election...
...Midge Costanza knows how to dress for success. In fact, President Carter's aide stole the show last week at a fund raiser for the Women's National Democratic Club. The "political fashion show" at Washington's Arena Stage featured Caron Carter dressed as her mother-in-law and Louisiana Representative Lindy Boggs as Lady Bird Johnson. Costanza's role: Amelia Bloomer, the 19th century suffragist who, by defending women's pantaloons, gave bloomers their name. Costanza, whose office has just been moved to the White House basement, flashed a hand-lettered sign: WANTED: OFFICE...