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Word: wife (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Series ends, and it proceeds in a hysterical fashion for three more months, milking the advertisers' good cheer for every last dime. Turn on a soap in the last quarter of the year. Even odds says some kid--whose father is in jail because they say he killed his wife's boyfriend who is not really her boyfriend because she is actually having an affair with her husband's sister--is discussing with his good-hearted grandfather where to spend the holidays. The grandfather is a doctor. Everybody on soaps is a doctor. And every single room has tacky Christmas...

Author: By Jeff Toobin, | Title: How Television Steals Christmas | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Karavansky and his wife, who had been imprisoned from 1972 to 1975, left Moscow last Thursday on a flight to Vienna. After meeting with press and officials from Amnesty International (A.I.) they went on to London Friday night. They will arrive in Washington, D.C., next Monday afternoon, an A.I. official in New York said last night...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Soviet Union Allows Dissident to Leave | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...Soviet Union has allowed a Ukrainian dissident invited to speak at Harvard to leave the country. He and his wife are now in London on their way to the United States...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Soviet Union Allows Dissident to Leave | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

John Rawls, Cowles Professor of Philosophy, consulted his wife before deciding that he wanted his grown children, scattered around the country, to come home for the holidays...

Author: By Sue Brown, | Title: The Professor Who Has Everything | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...Follette, as Tom's would-be temptress and Norman's oft-eschewed wife Ruth, achieves a balance of incisiveness and insightfulness that makes her character whole and believable. Although she seems to seethe with an underlying intensity, La Follette at times stifles her portrayal, as she does in act two, scene one of "Round and Round the Garden," when she converses with Sarah so quietly that some of her words are lost to the back rows...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Currier's Conquests | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

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