Word: wife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rosebroch said that in the 1700s Harvard students slept together in large rooms or chambers, and the food was so poor that the wife of President Nathaniel Eaton felt compelled to apologize in writing for serving the boarders "goat's dung in their hasty pudding...
...ruling Ivory Coast Democratic Party asked President Houphouet-Boigny to grant Bokassa asylum for "humanitarian reasons." Houphouet-Boigny agreed to this request in telephone calls from Bokassa's wife, Catherine, on behalf of her children...
...when he was 27, he got a job as stand-by for Giuseppe di Stefano in a Covent Garden production of La Bohème and sang several performances. Conductor Richard Bonynge heard him and was "bowled over." Eventually, Pavarotti found himself singing with Bonynge's wife, Joan Sutherland, in a Miami production of Lucia di Lammermoor. To Sutherland's skeptical eye, this strapping unknown looked like "a big schoolboy." But to her ear? "Well, it was absolutely phenomenal ? the fabulous resonance, the shading, such range, such security." The Bonynges signed him up for a 14-week tour of Australia...
...opera houses of the world seem far away. Yes, work must be done; but first, perhaps, a spin in the cabin cruiser? A workman arrives to fix the pool; he must be invited in for a glass of wine. The three Pavarotti daughters wander through, or his wife Adua settles in a corner; an interlude of familial chatting and joking is irresistible...
...with a faint dusting of powdered concrete from the walls of unfinished buildings ..." Vost dwells in a characterless (and imaginary) European town, works as "a mere clerk in a dismal pharmacy" and plays doting father to his teen-age daughter Mirabelle. Two other women dominate his thoughts: his late wife Claire and his mother Eva, an inmate of La Violaine, the town's prison for women...