Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brunette with a jealous husband got the Dade County, Fla. sheriff's office to give her a lie detector test, went home with a letter certifying that she had been a faithful wife...
Winston Churchill, a sturdy monogamist himself, pointed out the loopholes to prospective wife-killers. If you are anxious to avoid hanging, he said, "you can strangle her, hold her head in a gas oven . . . stab her, cut her throat or bash her brains out. If you can arrange a procedure, you can set her on fire, push her off a station platform in front of an oncoming train, push her through the porthole of a ship, or, more easily, you can drown her in the bathtub...
...been drawn up, Gordon Fogo will read the names of the nominees to the convention. He hopes to read the names fast enough to block any unseemly demonstration. Says Fogo in a political paraphrase of a classic line: "In my job you have to be like Caesar's wife, playing no favorites...
...Although a chronic worrywart, Patton usually manages to control his worrying. In his crowded schedule there are special times for fretting, just as there are set times to go to classes at the University of Southern California and a set time to be home for dinner (he has a wife and two-year-old daughter). The proof of Patton's iron control under pressure: he has never jumped a starting...
...season the subject of running was rarely mentioned in the Patton home. Mel never read the sport pages: "I might begin believing those things they write." When the afternoon paper was delivered to their neat, $35-a-month apartment on Beverly Hills' Burton Way, his wife tore out the sport section and put it away. As sensitive to excitement as a punch-drunk fighter is to bells, Patton didn't want any gongs ringing inside...