Word: wife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your article "Trying to Slow Social Security" [Jan. 22], you suggest phasing out benefits paid to spouses who "do not work" because such payments are expensive and "discriminate against working women." I'd like to know what a wife who works for years at hard labor-cooking, cleaning, doing the laundry, being nurse, adviser, chauffeur and mainstay of a home-does if she does not work. I would say that this kind of working woman deserves all she gets from her husband's share of Social Security...
...summit with Teng officially began at 10 a.m. on a gray and threatening Monday. Teng and his diminutive wife Cho Lin pulled up to the south lawn, in a black armored limousine and were warmly greeted by Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. Teng briskly walked down the line of 35 U.S. dignitaries, shaking hands with the zest of a U.S. politician, and then clambered onto the small red-carpeted reviewing stand. The wind gusted so hard that Rosalynn reached out to steady Cho Lin as she wobbled on the steps...
...asked to see because his 1972 trip to Peking began the chain of events that led to normalization of relations. It was Nixon's first visit to the White House since his resignation in 1974, and there were some awkward moments. Speaker O'Neill's wife refused to sit at the same table with him. The former President stayed in a corner of the East Room during cocktails, talking with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. "I said that I was glad to see him again," said Kissinger afterwards, "and he seemed happy to be back...
...High. Then came a surprise for basketball fan Teng, the clowning of the Harlem Globetrotters. Teng also clearly enjoyed the singing of I Love T'ien An Men Square, in Chinese, by the 80-member National Children's Choir. After the show the Carters, Teng, and his wife, who was holding hands with Amy Carter, rushed up to shake hands with the Globetrotters and kiss the children. Carter finally exited with Teng stage left, his arm draped casually around the Vice Premier's stocky shoulders...
...Rome the Shah was despondent. A gynecologist provided by the CIA was giving a course of injections to his wife, Soroya, in a vain attempt to reverse her childlessness. He badgered her so often to make love with her husband that she finally lost her temper. "Doctor," she snapped, "all I'm asking you to do is find something to break my eggs. I'll see the Shah goes on making omelettes." The news of the successful coup cheered the Shah over this contretemps, however, and he returned triumphantly to Iran...