Word: wife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After eight years, my wife has just retired from her profession in order to raise a family. Before TIME arrived, we thought of ourselves as a more or less average middle-income family. How future shocking it was to learn that we had given up our membership in the new elite and joined the new poor before we realized either existed...
There was a burst of gunfire, then a Guard patrol, walkie-talkies crackling, passed by. The patrol had just come from the little five-room Hotel Soza, where they had burst in and raked the reception room with machine-gun fire. Four people, including the hotel owner's wife and a maid, were killed. Though none of them had been armed, the Guard later claimed the four were extremistas. To justify their killings, the Guard mounted a pathetic Exhibit A, consisting of Sandinista poems, a box of nails and Gerber baby-food jars (often used to make bombs...
...first season's repertoire in New York includes lots of familiar fare, and he plans no major overhaul of the Philharmonic. "Innovation," he says, "happens as you go along." He will spend 18 to 22 weeks a year in New York, living with his wife Nancy on Manhattan's East Side. Another twelve to 14 weeks will go to his beloved Israel Philharmonic...
...Hardy, the plot takes a dozen improbable turns. When he was a poor young man, Henchard got drunk at a country fair and sold his wife and daughter to a sailor for five guineas. Eighteen years later he is a rich hay and wheat merchant, as well as the mayor of Casterbridge. He is remorseful for his sin, however, and when his wife turns up, the sailor having been lost at sea, he tries to right the old wrong by marrying her again and adopting his own daughter...
Kane brought Mank more work, most notably Pride of the Yankees. But in the decade before his death in 1953 at 55, the boozing increased and the jobs evaporated. His wife Sara would drive around after lunch, searching for his car in the parking lots of Beverly Hills restaurants; when she found it, she would go in and march him away like a truant. He composed a form letter of apology for hostesses of dinner parties he had disgraced...