Word: uncomplainingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Yvonne de Gaulle, 79, widow of French President Charles de Gaulle and known throughout France as "Aunt Yvonne"; in Paris. The daughter of a wealthy Calais biscuit manufacturer, she was a loyal and uncomplaining supporter of her husband's tumultuous military and political career. She joined him in...
Once, they evoked images of quiet docility: woman in white, sister of mercy, ministering angel. Walking softly through hospital corridors, tending to the ill and infirm, nurses did every duty from cleaning bedpans to assisting in surgery. They performed wearying, thankless tasks with such uncomplaining efficiency that doctors and patients...
Of all the men around former President Richard Nixon, probably none was more hated than Chuck Colson, top hatchet man and tireless inventor of dirty tricks. There was a sense of national satisfaction when he pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and served seven months in jail. Now, in a...
Pat was working in Whittier, Calif., when she met Nixon, who sought a role in an amateur play just to meet the pretty new teacher. He proposed the first night he saw her, but she kept him waiting for two years before finally consenting, at the age of 28, to...
Sir/ As I read the letters [Nov. 26] in response to your editorial, what dismayed me was not some people's unflagging support for Nixon. That was to be expected. What sickened me was their demands that a magazine that dares to attack the President close down. Nowhere does...