Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Infraction. In San Francisco, a notice on a Southern Pacific Railroad bulletin board announced the dismissal of "one redcap porter ... for shooting and killing wife; a violation of that part of Rule 801 reading, 'Employees who are . . . vicious . . . will not be retained in the service...
...Manhattan. For exercise, he has turned from tennis to golf (he has broken 90); he plays softball with his sons and does setting-up exercises in his bedroom. For recreation, he reads (mainly history, biography and thrillers), occasionally plays penny-ante poker, drinks moderately, sings duets with his wife...
...With the Wife's Help. Along with the subtractions, something new was added which would make dinner-table conversation out of the new tax bill for many weeks. It extends to taxpayers in all states the income-splitting benefits enjoyed by those in the twelve states (and Hawaii) with community-property laws.† For middle-bracket and upper-bracket taxpayers, this system of putting man & wife into a half-&-half fiscal partnership (TIME, Nov. 3) was the real bonanza...
Stepping off the Queen Elizabeth with his wife, Britain's Professor Harold Laski, a longtime apologist for Communism, sadly confessed: "I am deeply grieved by the Russian treatment of Czechoslovakia and by what little I know about the Russian treatment of Italy in next month's election...
...Montgomery Clift, Wendell Corey) pick him up, they have to tame him as if he were a wild animal. Gradually he finds that he can trust them, and begins to learn English-just as nine-year-old Ivan Jandl did to play the part. Watching an officer's wife with her child, the boy begins to realize what a mother is, and what is lacking in his own life. Some of the suspense and coincidence through which the mother and son are finally reunited may seem a little overcalculated, but in postwar Europe fact is often stranger than fiction...