Word: wife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another part of the tent, Mrs. Ezer Weizman, wife of the Israeli Minister of Defense, turned to Kissinger with tears in her eyes. "I never thought that I would live to see it," she said. Then she looked over to where her husband was introducing her son, severely wounded in the 1973 war, to the son of Anwar Sadat...
...case of a tie, House Speaker George Thomas, a Laborite, would have voted for the government. Then came news that changed the balance: Labor M.P. Sir Alfred Broughton, 76, hospitalized after a heart attack, could not make it on a stretcher to vote, while a Tory M.P. whose wife had died said he would come. As the members filed back into the chamber after voting, there was a tense period of anxious suspense until the result was announced: the motion had passed 311 to 310. The Conservative benches erupted into cheers; Thatcher remained seated, showing no emotion. Later, after...
Zbigniew Brzezinski and wife enjoyed the Washington premiere of Hair so much that they decided to take in the post-premiere party at the elan, a downtown D.C. disco. Doffing coat and tie, munching from a health spread of brown rice, raw vegetables and yogurt soup, President Carter's national security adviser danced almost every feverish dance. His evening was interrupted only once for a White House call (subject undisclosed). When asked what he thought of the movie, he replied in diplomatic circum-speak: "It was a benign view of a difficult past...
Ayckbourn married a young actress, Christine Roland, when he was 19 and fathered two sons, now 19 and 17. He and Christine separated several years ago, and Alan, who will be 40 next week, now lives with Heather Stoney, who is also an actress. His wife, Christine, has her own lover, and all four get along splendidly. Heather and Christine even take turns cutting Ayckbourn's hair; he is as frightened of barbers as he is of dentists. "People try to introduce me to my wife and get embarrassed when they find out we're married," he says...
...West provided a new outlet for Roosevelt's prodigious energies, as well as solace for the deaths of his mother and first wife on the same day. "Black care," wrote Roosevelt, "rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough." He rode hard, surpassing the doughty ranch hands whose ridicule turned to reverence. No body snickered when Teddy read Matthew Arnold on the trail of an outlaw gang...