Word: wed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Toward the end of July, around midnight, about 70 men, women and children were brought in. The children and most of the women were shrieking. They were all members of a wedding party. One smartly dressed celebrant said he had no idea what had gone wrong. "We were congratulating the bride and bridegroom when they burst in and arrested everyone," he said. Some of the more sophisticated political prisoners pointed out that all newly married couples in Iran had lately been suspected of being members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (People's Crusaders), the militant anti-Khomeini guerrilla force...
...affair openly when indecision, tardiness and class cutting were all temporarily legitimized-when making our bed and strolling to the Coop qualified as industrious activity. Yes, we were always an accepted couple during semester-starting periods, during the first two weeks when student sloth is as routine as newly-wed snuggle...
...late September, when what Charles calls "the family business" will start up again in earnest. Banquets, speeches, presentations, appearances: at least 200 official functions a year, plus one major foreign trip. The monarchy, it is said repeatedly, is above politics. But the monarchy has a political effect and the wedding demonstrated it, in the same way that it suggested the promise of a new England born out of a renewed-indeed, a re-wed-past...
Muriel Humphrey's decision to wed High School Friend Max Brown (both over 65), Pepper nodded cheerful approval...
...that conclusion is being challenged by an analysis of lung cancer deaths published last month in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Epidemiologist Lawrence Garfinkel of the American Cancer Society studied data collected over twelve years on 176,739 nonsmoking women and concluded that those wed to smokers did not run a greater risk of dying from lung cancer than those married to nonsmokers. Garfinkel notes, however, that neither his study nor Hirayama's provides "definitive information" on the effects of passive smoking. "Classifying nonsmoking women on the basis of the smoking habits of their husbands...