Word: spousal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crusades with self-promotional relish. "In Phoenix," he relates, "I killed an antiabortion bill in the house by one vote, going on the air a couple of hours before and giving out the phone numbers of undecided legislators. I also managed to put together a spousal-rape...
Barbara will probably never sit in on Cabinet meetings a la Rosalynn Carter or get people fired, as Nancy did. But a spousal "Dear, I wouldn't do that if I were you," delivered with a raised eyebrow, can often defeat a stack of position papers. During Bush's postelection vacation, he was asked whether he had received any advice about his new job. He smiled broadly and pointed to his wife, standing nearby in tennis shoes and sweats. Barbara raised her eyebrows and said, "Just kidding." Replied Bush...
With impeccable grooming and a smile that Miss Americas sweat to learn, Maureen ("Mo") Dean, wife of Watergate Star Witness John Dean, set the precedent for spousal demeanor at Senate hearings. She now capitalizes on her Washington years with a novel about politics and bedfellows. Dean writes about sex in the White House and sex on the presidential yacht. Her version of John Kennedy gives new meaning to the Bay of Pigs affair, as the randy Commander in Chief leaves his lover mad and languishing in a Swiss sanatorium. Elsewhere in this view of Washington below the Beltway...
...held "services" in his house for retarded women. He had a history of violence, however, and was convicted in 1978 of kidnaping a mentally handicapped woman. In 1985 he married a mail-order bride from the Philippines, but she left him after only three months, accusing him of spousal rape. He also had a knack for making good investments: police found documents in his house showing that he owned $500,000 worth of stock. Heidnik and a friend who occasionally in the house, Cyril ("Tony") Brown, 31, were charged with murder, rape and kidnaping, and prosecutors said they would seek...
EQUALLY IRRELEVANT is whether the couple had been sexually intimate before. Are we to assume that once a woman sleeps with someone she is rightfully his thereafter? This attitude is only a more modern version of the one exhibited by those who oppose the criminalization of spousal rape. Alabama Senator Jeremiah Denton couldn't have put this offensive idea more eloquently: "When a man gets married he expects he's going to get a little...