Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While most B.A. citizens were interviewed by run-of-the-mill officials, residents of eight workers' apartments close by the President's mansion had a surprise. The head of the state and his wife personally punched their doorbells. While Perón smilingly took down the data, Evita graciously presented gifts...
Mayor Martin Kennelly of Chicago, who makes a point of double-quick refuse collecting, got a complaint from a citizen whose wife had accidentally thrown $30 in the garbage: the collectors had whisked the stuff away before the couple could rescue the money. Kennelly quieted the man down-and set a perilous precedent -by forking over $30 out of his own pocket...
...aired over Manhattan's powerful WHN five nights a week, beginning May 19, and will not interfere with guest spots on other stations, new recordings, and other comeback plans. Husband Alderman will be on hand, too. But, says Ruth, "it won't be the usual husband-&-wife show, with a lot of silly chatter over the breakfast table...
...With a Russian wife and with the representation of his press association to safeguard in a police state, Gilmore is not to be blamed for leaving the seamy side of Russian news unreported. . . . But why hand out a prize for that kind of work when more independent and discerning foreign correspondents have provided their readers with really distinguished telegraphic reporting ... from Far Eastern and European areas where the going has been far from easy...
...declared that [artificial insemination] was illegal, that it was adultery, and that signed papers would not remove it from that scope. I think that is inexcusable. . . . The wife's motive is to escape adultery by having her baby by a decent means...