Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against me, I shall not ask for my life, and I do not want you to ask MacArthur for my life." When he had heard the sentence, he said it was a "victors' trial"-meaning, what else could a sensible Japanese expect? Outside, under a tree, his wife and daughter wept...
...little man had sent his wife a lock of hair and a long fingernail clipping. This is the custom of Japanese who expect to die. Last week, under klieg lights that gleamed on his shaven head, Hideki Tojo smiled and nodded as sentence was passed upon...
...record, and the local brass invited it to spend a month basking on the Riviera and playing football as the "home team" for Nice. McCabe could go down with the team, or use his points to get a discharge. He decided to go home to his family and the wife he had married early in 1944. Ben came home on Christmas...
...Valpey through his father-in-law, Ozzie Cowles, who was basketball coach in 1947 at Michigan, and is now mentor at Minnesota. After graduating from Iowa Teachers, Ben discovered there was a dearth of high school coaching jobs in Iowa. He went east to Michigan both to visit his wife's family, and to locate a coaching...
...thick paste of sentimental egotism; the reader can no more escape Billy Rose ("I'm a ham-boned, hickory-smoked, and sugar-cured") than he could escape himself if he were locked up in a padded cell. One chapter, "Holm, Sweet Holm," tells the reader how wonderful wife Eleanor is, how she makes him behave like a gentleman, stops him from buying candied apples on sticks (because they have "nine million calories"), and even prods him into picking up porous fragments of Culture. Another chapter, containing warmed-over stories of the kind O. Henry froze into a formula...