Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...famous ego than with the self-kidding that well-established products sometimes employ in their advertisements. There was, after all, a fortune involved. The gross from the serialization in LIFE, the book version and all world-wide rights would be more than $1 million. Aquarius had long since shed the intellectual's frequent ambiguity toward money. He needed it too much. There were obligations to former wives and his six children. His fourth marriage was breaking up. He had taken a couple of debt-defying leaps at moviemaking. He needed to buy time to try and write...
Rear Admiral Herman J. Kossler, commandant of the Sixth Naval District headquartered in Charleston, has ordered Seabee units, whose training often consists of building bridges and docks only to knock them down again, to undertake permanent projects. In line with Z-grams, he had them build a shed so that men with motorcycles could park their vehicles, construct a marina, outfit an automobile hobby shop and panel the walls of living quarters...
Like most Alaskan homes. Art's one-room house is built for comfort; the land is built for beauty. It's a small house with a shed on the back and hardly enough space for the stove and sink, the bed, the boys' cribs and toys, and four active people. But the downhill side of the house has a long row of windows, and it's hard to imagine feeling confined when the neighbors they see from their windows are peaks on the far side...
...Vittorio De Sica, who became a French citizen and got a French divorce to marry his second wife, and Carlo Ponti, who went the same route to wed Sophia Loren. Under the new law, Gina Lollobrigida can Italianize her 1968 Austrian divorce from Milko Skofic, and Maria Callas can shed Giovanni Battista Meneghini, from whom she has been separated for eleven years...
...country. Because it was Mexico, no one was entirely sure of what the new divorce rules were, but Eugenio Calzada, a highly respected Juárez lawyer, said flatly: "Divorces for Americans are finished." From now on, Americans will apparently have no place to which they can travel alone, shed a mate in one day and be reasonably sure that the divorce will stand up. The shortest residency requirement now available to a singleminded spouse is the six-week period authorized in Idaho and Nevada...