Word: partner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ambulance Driver Doug Lister and his partner, Marty Shipman, were the first rescuers to reach the twisted wreckage. Said Shipman: "Suddenly I couldn't breathe. I started screaming at Doug to get the hell out of there." Added Lister: "I was spitting up blood. I felt like I was breathing flames. I thought I was going to die." Lister managed to put the ambulance into reverse and rush away. Others were not so lucky: eight people died and 50 were injured...
Shared appointments have their drawbacks for the couples. Tenure becomes a mid-career crisis; most colleges refuse to split a tenured post, so each partner must be considered separately. Professional jealousy can erupt between the sharers. Says Courtney Gordon: "You have to be noncompetitive in terms of your job?and have a very strong marriage." Another problem: it is virtually impossible to leave the office behind. The Grubers, for example, agreed initially that there would be no shop talk at meals. But after "a number of silent dinners," they gave in, and have never regretted it. Indeed, says Marjorie Woods...
...slain Mafioso, pall-bearer Gavino fantasizes a statue of his father in place of the sculpted saint perched atop the coffin. And if that does not constitute laying it on with a trowel, consider this: before settling down to the business of lovemaking, a young man persuades his partner to smoke his cigar with the ash end in her mouth. A hint of things to come, perhaps...
...began with boxing instruction at a neighborhood center and younger brother Michael as sparring partner. After dropping out of school in the tenth grade, he eventually joined the Marine Corps and its Camp Lejeune boxing squad. Despite a tendency to avoid training whenever possible, Spinks' brawling aggressiveness won him a spot on the 1976 U.S. Olympic team in Montreal. While Mom watched on a borrowed TV set in St. Louis, he and Michael, by then a fast-rising middleweight, became the first brothers to win gold medals in boxing simultaneously...
...seven, Clark Bain dominated his sparring partner and posted a 15-13, 15-7, 15-13 shellacking...