Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blizzard finally blew itself out, Army planes took off to drop supplies, scour the snow-burdened plains for signs of distress. Some spotted stranded motorists, who had survived miraculously far from towns. Some had been lucky enough to sit out the storm in their cars. One man and his wife who were marooned near Scottsbluff, Neb. had even found food-frozen ears of corn from roadside fields...
...frozen bodies of a rancher, his wife and their two children were found in a field near Rockport, Colo. They had left their car, had tried to cut across the prairie, a mile to their home. The rancher's body was huddled protectively over that of his son. His wife sheltered the body of their daughter. Both had wrapped part of their clothing around the children before they died...
...four hours, threatened to demand a recount of last fall's close election (Bowles won by only 2,285 votes). But the high point of the proceedings was Bowles's rakish appearance in the inaugural parade-he wore a dented grey hat with his cutaway. Said his wife: "Chet has a silk hat somewhere. But he just won't wear...
...that same day, in the same hospital, one Mrs. Theodosia Shatis, the wife of a Cyprus shepherd, also gave birth to a boy. He weighed only 6 Ibs. 1 oz. and he seemed to resemble his dark parents...
Luck for the Shepherd. When Shepherd Charal Shatis looked into the strange blue eyes of the son his wife had brought home, he felt some misgivings. But Shatis began to prosper, and he came to believe that Blue Eyes brought him luck...