Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yugoslavs also released the suicide notes of Father Nekliudov to show that he had really died by his own hand. To his wife (if the notes were genuine) the priest had written: "My Veronika, forgive me. Goodbye . . . Those who are 'creating history' [are to blame], and perhaps not even they." To his court and jailers: "I blame nobody . . . Food was good." To his prosecutor: "The wheel of history has passed over a worm." To God: "How stupid it is. Before my life's end, I am lunching and dining and taking exercise . . . God, where...
What did all this prove? Perón made no effort to disprove Deputy Cattaneo's general contention that Peronistas were getting rich in office, and he did not list his own present wealth-or his wife's. But in attacking Cattáneo and the newspapers, Perón left little doubt that his final aim was to smash the last two citadels of a free press in Argentina and rid himself of every last vestige of opposition...
...thatched roof. He sleeps on llama skins, and has no more sanitary conveniences than his llamas. He usually wears shirt, coat, knee-length pants, sandals made from old automobile tires, a poncho and a chullo (wool headgear with flaps, like a skater's cap). All these his wife makes for him. She also bears him children; the altitude, which often makes newcomers from the coast temporarily sterile, seems to have no such effect on highlanders...
...quit modeling at 18 to marry U.S. Candy Heir George Schrafft, a speedboat enthusiast; soon she divorced him and married Brazillionaire Carlos Guinle, a racing-car enthusiast. But all Carlosinho's coffee millions could not make up to Suzy for being treated like an old-fashioned Brazilian wife. She resented having to pour tea for Rio matrons while Carlosinho stepped out; she also resented the gossips' talk that, if she failed to appear in public for a few days, she was waiting at home for the black & blue marks of Carlos' annoyance to fade from her petal...
...President and his wife arrived slightly out of breath after climbing to the fourth floor, sipped a cup of tea, talked about freshman life and examinations for about ten minutes, and them departed or a Leverett House dinner. Conant returned Monday from a four day trip to Houston, Texas...