Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strictly speaking, Joe Suk shouldn't have been on the front at all. After almost two years of continuous fighting he had just got his first ten-day furlough ticket so that he could go back to his village to marry a childhood sweetheart. Charlie Company had sent the hat round and collected $250 for Joe, and issued him a mock-formal order: "Have a good time." A Katusa (Korean attached to U.S. troops) and thereby not eligible for rotation, he had been up to the Yalu and back again with the Wolfhounds, fighting, said one G.I., "with...
...Georgian nationalism, this made Uncle Sosso rather popular with most townsfolk. But when Budu's mother remembered how Sosso had been sent to an Orthodox seminary to be trained for the church, and how he had subsequently turned so shamelessly irreligious as to live openly with his sweetheart, she gave Budu a second slap and added: "This is for your Uncle Sosso...
From the start, he was a successful lawyer, with every incentive to settle down to a respected life in Saginaw. Six months after graduation he married his childhood sweetheart, Pamela Stark, daughter of another wealthy Saginaw attorney, who provided them with a new house. But a disturbing influence came to Saginaw in the guise of one Dick Grant, a friend of the family and general counsel of the M. A. Hanna Co. in Cleveland. Grant offered George a job as M. A. Hanna's assistant counsel. George accepted, for reasons that he could not quite explain to himself...
...grew up on the farm, worked as a grocery clerk, bakery pan greaser and Pullman conductor to pay his way through the University of Minnesota, graduated from the law school with above-average marks in 1929 at the age of 22. The same year he married his school-day sweetheart, Esther Glewwe. They have two children, Glen, 16, and Kathleen...
...cold weather, cocooned in several layers of shawls and scarves, and wrapped in a huge old overcoat, she sallies forth. Her hands nest mandarin-style in the large sleeves. Each day's walk ends the same way-with a visit to her "last sweetheart," an 80-year-old carpenter of Lakeville. "I spend my relaxation ration with him. We understand each other -we are both craftsmen: he loves his carpentry as I love my music. Our conversation is very condensed." With a birdlike flutter of her thin-boned hands, Landowska adds: "But his niece -she is too bourgeoise...