Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...companion, and only close friend, is his 54-year-old sister Fatima. After their parents died, when Fatima was nine, Jinnah brought her up. She was a dentist for a year in Bombay; her first patient was brother Mohamed. She gave up dentistry to look after him when his wife died...
...took his doctor's degree at Columbia under John Dewey, who called Hu the keenest mind he had ever met on Morningside Heights. Hu dated a Chinese Vassar girl, but married the village girl to whom his family had engaged him in childhood. Ambassador Hu's wife, too shy and unconfident to come to the U.S., stayed behind in Peking. When the Japanese came, she rescued at great peril what she knew was most precious to her husband: 70 crates of rare books and manuscripts...
...ease were no longer in his step and his round Slavic face showed the pallor of years of illness and the vacuity of long insanity. Dressed in a dark blue suit, which looked incongruous on him, he shuffled aimlessly along with his male attendant, and Romola, his devoted wife...
Once, ten years ago, the harsh outlines of reality had begun to focus in Nijinsky's blurred mind. He was allowed to leave his secluded asylum in Switzerland, lived privately for a time in his wife's native Hungary. He had begun to recognize friends. Then came war, and the sound of bombs sent him cowering back into his world of shadow. The Russians found him in Hungary, put him up in the best hotel in Vienna, gave him a box at the ballet. The Russians assured Romola that Nijinsky would be welcomed in Russia as a hero...
Last week, helped by English friends, Nijinsky was comfortably settled in a country hotel in Surrey. There he plays games of patience with his attendant. He likes to listen to the radio, occasionally dances to music he likes-if there is no one in the room but his wife. He still draws strange faces and spidery designs. When strangers approach, his brown eyes look hunted and wild and he grips his chair. Romola still believes that her husband has a dancing future. Says she: "Nijinsky's one wish is to go to America. There he was happy...