Word: wife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three-day visit-during Christmas rush at that-I had cordial and substantial meetings with Alton Carter (Jimmy's uncle and keeper of the family tales, possessed of an excellent narrative tongue and the sweet will to use it); Gloria Carter Spann (Jimmy's nearest sister, wife to a Plains farmer and the most retiring and impressive of the circle); Miss Allie Smith (Rosalynn's serene but clearly strong mother); and Jimmy and Rosalynn themselves (attentive as radar stations on the DEW line and pleasanter...
...magnetism for tourists will diminish (when I was there, I saw a mere 300 a day-lots of parking, no crush), it also seems certain that the green crossroads and its 600 souls can never lapse into pre-Carter life. The cause is not Jimmy or his mother or wife or his sad younger brother or Cousin Hugh, whose recent ragbag memoirs spill prematurely a lot of what seem to be real family beans. The beans, after all, are everyone's family beans, only easier to see: mothers-in-law, problem children, alcohol, a taste for money (as someone...
...their own. In Reading, Orthopedic Surgeon Patrick Chesterman curtly told half a dozen union members who were waiting for treatment: "I'm terribly sorry, but I'm not serving trade unionists today." At the Dog and Partridge pub in Bury St. Edmunds, the owner's wife refused to serve lunch to two senior officers of the National Union of Public Employees. United Biscuits, a maker of cookies, persuaded a high court judge to issue an injunction against picketing truckers...
...received Jewish and Armenian delegations from Iran and assured them that they would continue to be represented in Parliament and that their rights would be protected. When a group of women asked if he would try to bring back polygamy, Khomeini gave a rare smile and answered, "One wife is enough...
...Egypt, where the Shah had flown his Boeing 707 jet after leaving Tehran, Sadat was a gracious host. He and his wife Jihan flew in planeloads of guests for formal dinners at Aswan's Oberoi Hotel in honor of the Shah and his glamorous, chain-smoking Empress Farah. By day the royal couple toured the nearby temples of Philae and listened politely to lectures on Egyptian archaeology. Sadat saw the Shah off to Morocco, on the next leg of his hastily drawn itinerary, with a kiss on each cheek and a 16-gun salute...