Word: mother-in-law
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...ludicrous. For example, shortly after Deborah has resolved never to communicate with Simon again, considering him lost to his common Irish biddy, she is forced by financial hardship to ask his charity. She does so only after great deliberation, and then almost instantaneously decides to become a loving mother-in-law as well. This unnatural, almost absurd changes of heart towards Sara makes Deborah's subsequent rapport with her hard to swallow...
...Barry Goldwater Jr. The audience had its own all-in-the-family touch. Among those who came to cheer Julie on were Josephine Abplanalp, whose aerosol millionaire husband Robert is one of Richard Nixon's most loyal backers, and Mrs. Howard Ellis Cox, Sister Tricia's mother-in-law...
...enough." After denying Shaffer's request to postpone sentencing until the newly released Watergate tapes could shed more light on Dean's role in the conspiracy, Sirica handed down a stiff one-to four-year sentence. Noting the current serious illness of Dean's mother-in-law, Sirica allowed Dean until September 3 to arrange for her care before entering prison. It will be at least one year before he will be eligible for parole, though he is likely to spend a fair amount of his sentence outside as a witness in court or before...
...storm in a stirrup cup. "Columbus was overridden and possibly even terrified," declared an outraged TV viewer of the Badminton horse trials in Gloucestershire. Animal Lover Jean Pyke was attacking Captain Mark Phillips for his handling of the hunter that had been lent to him by his mother-in-law for the grueling three-day contest of dressage, show and cross-country jumping. A big gray, Columbus had galloped off with the Whitbread Trophy to the delight of Winner Mark and Owner Queen Elizabeth, and the wifely acquiescence of Princess Anne, who placed fourth in the event. Mark...
...Zurich's Kloten Airport and Alexander Solzhenitsyn bounded up the steps of the plane with a bunch of red and white carnations. Minutes later he emerged, carrying in his arms his sons, Yermolai, 3, and Ignat, 17 months. Behind them came his wife Natalya, stepson Dimitri, 12, mother-in-law and youngest son Stepan, six months. Then the Solzhenitsyns drove to their home in exile, a seven-room villa. Deported from Russia in February for publishing in the West his account of Stalinist terror, The Gulag Archipelago, the novelist was concerned that his archives, which he needs to continue...