Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife, Sentoria, heard about it and came rushing down to take him home. But she couldn't keep him there-Jim strolled back to the poolroom for a while, then sauntered over to the Busy Bee for a cup of coffee. That was when the cops came. They hauled Jim to Waukegan jail and started talking. "All right, you black son-ofabitch, tell the truth," demanded one. "We know you done...
...Juan Atilio Bramuglia was one of the ablest men in President Juan Perón's cabinet. Though a moderate, he was also one of Perón's oldest and staunchest supporters. But he had one disadvantage: he had somehow, somewhere, offended the President's wife, Evita. Last week, it indirectly cost...
Fabre, son of an unsuccessful innkeeper and his illiterate peasant wife, worked his way through teachers' school by hiring out as a laborer, doing odd jobs, selling lemonade at fairs. For nearly 20 years he was a professor at the Lycee of Avignon, at a salary which never came to more than $320 a year. Sacked in 1870 for letting girls come to his science classes, he supported a wife and five children for nine years by grubbing out popular science books. In the end, he saved enough money to realize a lifetime dream, buying a couple...
Last week, prosperous Kent School, with 300 students, 26 teachers, and $2,000,000 worth of modern colonial buildings sprawled along Connecticut's meandering Housatonic River, made an administrative departure. It hired a new headmaster who has a wife and four growing kids...
...doesn't take Max Divver long to demonstrate what a lost soul he is. Then, in his shame, he unburdens himself to Jimmy, confessing bitterly that he really loves his wife, that he doesn't give much of a damn for the working class, doesn't believe in Forces or in any of the things he. has pretended to believe in, and wishes to God that he had never been educated and could say what he thinks...