Word: wife
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris, $300; Charles Manning, Consul General in Bermuda, $1,000; William Foster, Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Dis armament Agency, $300; Michel Cie-plinski, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administrative Affairs, $500; Frank Meyer, Special Assistant for Congressional Relations, $400. In all, 13 State Department officials and the wife of the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration, Idar Rimstad, contributed $4,175 to the Rooney coffers...
...Jordan to attend wounded fedayeen. Arab businessmen offered supplies and purchased weapons, and the Saudi and Kuwait governments began diverting to fedayeen coffers funds usually contributed to Jordan's budget. Individual contributions by the thousands poured in from Arabs throughout the Middle East and those abroad; the wife of Saudi Arabia's King Feisal sent $4,500. In the coffee bars of Beirut, young Arabs peddle El Fatah stamps, to be used like Christmas seals, bearing a picture of a burned child and the words "Shalom and Napalm"-a reference to the use of napalm by Israelis...
...from five to 130 years. Their gimmick: to station a confederate at a ceiling peephole in the Friars' card rooms; the "peeper" would then transmit electronic signals about opponents' hands. But was it necessary? Not really, said Martin. "I'm a pretty poor player anyway. My wife beats me all the time...
Among the ladies, only Chalyce Brown can match his performance. As Mad Margaret, an envious witch and later wife to Sir Despard, she charges happily from wild laughter, to perfectly-controlled song to dreamy, moon-struck soliloquy. Sad to report, her part is smaller than her gifts...
...individual scenes are often hilarious and demonstrate Donleavy's adeptness at using his lyrical Joycean prose to explore human emotions. A scene of touching pathos, for example, is broken up when Balthazar is discovered naked and feverishly ill in Breda's bed by her employer's wife. The female fight that follows is unmatched in literature for its comic ferocity. Hair curlers are grabbed, bellies butted, Balthazar's breakfast food spilled, bottles of urine knocked over, dresses ripped-all while Balthazar lies abed and the mistress's husband tries to mediate as if he were...