Word: rossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Daria Walker's life is the picture of domestic bliss. A highly accomplished cook, she spends her days gracefully dishing up all manner of delicacies for her happy husband Ross and two happy daughters, growing herbs and flowers in her backyard in a wealthy Boston suburb, and lavishing love on her dog and two cats. Not just a housewife, Daria is a successful--even mildly famous--cookbook author, with a secretary, an agent, an editor, and adoring fans. In the opening scene of Fly Away Home, she returns from a grueling book promotion tour, aching to be home with...
Suddenly the sound of the engines changed as the flight attendant rapidly recited that landing litany, make sure your tray tables are upright. Daria hugged herself, glancing around her seat for stray items. Home... She had suffered from bad dreams. But now almost immediately she was being returned to Ross, her love, and things would be better between them. He would have missed her Now things would be just fine...
...Daria endures Ross's increasing verbal abuse and fiendish behavior long past the moment when the reader wants to hurl the book at the wall, she gradually becomes aware that in their 22 years of marriage, she has never known what exactly he does, besides lawyering. Turns out he's involved in all sorts of sordid and shady dealings--with two of her brothers involved, no less...
Last week the automaker captured its first big one. It announced plans to spend as much as $2.5 billion to buy Dallas-based Electronic Data Systems, one of the biggest U.S. suppliers of computer services. Founded in 1962 by Chairman H. Ross Perot, EDS (1983 sales: $629.7 million) provides data processing for such customers as the U.S. Army and the state of Tennessee's Medicaid program. GM already has the first task for EDS: streamlining the automaker's morass of accounting, payroll and scheduling records. Said GM Chairman Roger Smith: "We have to get to the point where...
...small d. That Mcdonald. Not the late Ross Macdonald, creator of the estimable Lew Archer, nor John D. MacDonald, inventor of Travis McGee. Why three unrelated Americans with, more or less, the same Scottish clan name should have written some of the best detective stories of the past couple of decades is, appropriately enough, a mystery. But Gregory Mcdonald is appealingly fresh and impudent in his tales of Fletch, the irreverent reporter, and Flynn, the Boston supercop. The civilized and resourceful Inspector Francis Xavier Flynn is on duty here, spying out malefaction at something called the Rod and Gun Club...