Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Presidenta, her waxen face as deadpan as it always is when she is not smiling, will insist time & again that her husband governs alone, neither asking nor getting her advice. "I am his wife," she says, "and I am interested only in social work...
While his wife was making headlines in Europe, Juan Perón thought it a good time to restate his country's position in the world. This week, in his first worldwide radio broadcast, he put Argentina on the side of aiding "humanity in the fulfillment of its aspirations for internal and international peace." But he did more. Said he: "The work to be carried out. . . must consist in the eradication of capitalistic and totalitarian extremism. . . . [It] must be based on the forsaking of antagonistic ideologies and the creation of a world conscience which places man above systems...
...leader of Britain's House of Commons, Herbert Morrison, with his wife and 400 of his East Lewisham, London constituents, took a paddleboat down the Thames to Southend for a picnic, during which Politician Morrison played prestidigitator and performed a minor political hat trick...
Andrei Vishinsky, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, considered the woman question. A Canadian official reported that when Vishinsky refused to allow him to take his Russian wife home to Canada (a decision later reversed by Stalin), he said: "The duty of Russian women is to produce Soviet children. . . . Most women who marry foreigners are of the wrong type. . . . Women talk too much, and thus they give the wrong impression of the Soviet Union...
...Pretend?" All mortal sins must be confessed, but confession of minor offenses (like wife-nagging) is optional. Father Wilson says that there is no use worrying about long forgotten sins: "If [the Lord] does not recall the sin to your mind, He has no one to blame but Himself...