Word: wife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky long ago portrayed "violence, alcoholism and sex" in Russian life. Wife beating and child and animal abuse, as well as the pathological patterns studied by Soviet Dissident Mikhail Stern, filled Dostoyevsky's books, giving readers a grim and apparently still true portrait of Soviets at work and play...
...halls in the sunny tranquillity of the University of California at San Diego. Tanned, fit, cheerful students mixed musings on revolution with sunning, surfing, downing beers. "You cannot have fun with fascism," Marcuse recently complained. Yet he seemed to have fun. Just three years ago, he married his third wife Erica (by his first marriage he had a son Peter...
...vote of the 34 owners of a co-op at Manhattan's 19 East 72nd Street blackballed a $750,000 apartment sale to Richard Nixon. The former President had sought to purchase a nine-room penthouse in the expensive East Side high-rise so that he and his wife Pat could be closer to their children. But the other owners believed that the Nixons would have attracted curiosity seekers and destroyed what one blackballer called the ambiance of the building on the corner of Madison Avenue. "Just imagine," she said, "what would happen if the Shah of Iran visited...
...Visitors to the island today can clamber inside the earthen and granite prisons and imagine how lonesome life must have been for these sons of the South. So lonesome, in-indeed, that one young officer devised a way out of his predicament. He smuggled a message to his Georgia wife, asking her to aid his escape. She came to the island dressed im men's clothing, and managed to reach his cell before being discovered. Fighting her way out, she unfortunately killed her husband when the pistol she was carrying exploded. But her ill luck was not quite through. Prison...
...holy water and a "communion" of bread and wine. Finally the couple fastened blue ribbons around each other's heads-his with a gold medallion representing the sun, hers with a silver crescent symbolizing the moon-and jumped over a broomstick. With that, John Beasley, 26, and his wife Donna, 22, two chiropractors from Marietta, Ga., were declared man and wife...