Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disillusioned with the party when Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown was Governor of California in the late 1950s and early '60s. His mother, Bernice Clark, once remarked, "He moved so far to the right, we can't even discuss politics." At about the same time, Reagan made his switch from Democrat to Republican...
...considering a switch to suspenders must be prepared to make a financial investment. Good-quality braces start at around $18 and go up to $75 for embroidered silk ones. Many wearers have a pair for each suit. Furthermore, a classic set of suspenders must be anchored by six buttons affixed to the inner waistband of the trousers. Using metal clips to hold up one's pants is considered only slightly less outré than wearing a pair of white socks with a business suit...
DIVORCED. Patricia Neal, 57, Oscar-winning actress (Hud, 1963), and Roald Dahl, 66, British author of macabre short stories (Switch Bitch) and wry children's tales (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory); after 30 years of marriage, five children; in London. Dahl's affair with one of his wife's friends devastated a marriage that had survived much tragedy: a traffic accident that caused brain damage to their son, the death of a seven-year-old daughter from measles, and three nearly fatal strokes that partly paralyzed Neal during her fifth pregnancy...
...engaged to the maidens and can't understand Bunthorne's power over the women. Then comes another handsome poet dressed in white, from his white buck shoes to his white top hat Archibald Grosvenor (John Dennis Sullivan), who is disgusted by his natural ability to attract women. The maids switch over to Grosvenor who is passionately in love with Patience but Patience with her misguided view of love decides to marry Bunthorne, since her love for him will be selfless...
...Tony's father debates a local dermatologist, who happens to be the town's most vocal atheist, on the subject of Christian belief. Their spirited exchange, waged before an enthralled and partisan audience of locals, is declared a draw. But the combatants have persuaded each other to switch positions. The minister resigns his post and faith, moves east and becomes a suave, voice-over pitchman in dog food TV commercials; the doctor takes up tub-thumping evangelical crusading. Late in the novel, a rematch is arranged. Once again, the debaters each wind up convinced that the other...