Word: wife
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days after Revell's warning in Washington, Sharon Rogers, wife of U.S. Navy Captain Will Rogers III, was driving alone through San Diego on her way to her job as a schoolteacher. As her white Toyota van was stopped for a red light, a bomb exploded from underneath. Just before the vehicle burst into flames, Mrs. Rogers jumped out, shaken but unharmed. The van was gutted by the blast. Shards of metal had pierced its roof, barely missing her head. The significance of the bomb, which may have been triggered by remote control, almost certainly lay with Captain Rogers...
...Diego to check for other explosives. Guards were assigned to Captain and Mrs. Rogers, who went into hiding. They had received anonymous death threats shortly after the airliner tragedy. In July, Mrs. Rogers got a threatening call from someone she thought sounded Middle Eastern. "Are you the wife of the murderer?" the caller asked. When the Vincennes returned to its San Diego port in October, the ship's crew was ordered to be on alert for possible attacks when off the ship...
...prejudices are further unsettled by his growing interest in Aloysius Prettiman, a figure of caricature in the earlier books but now a man, seriously ill, who attracts Talbot's sympathy. Prettiman, a political radical, and his new wife are transporting a printing press with which they hope to stir change in the convict colony. Talbot reprimands stiffly: "And you, sir, travelling with the avowed intention of making trouble -- of troubling this Antipodean society which is created wholly for its own betterment!" Yet the young Englishman could become dry tinder for Prettiman's incendiary rhetoric: "Imagine our caravan, we, a fire...
...pages with a procession of notable women. He was portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in All the President's Men, based on the Watergate book he co- authored with Bob Woodward, and, as a fictional character, by Jack Nicholson in Heartburn, based on a cleverly barbed novel by his former wife, Nora Ephron. All the while, he was waging an off-and-on struggle with a project that he described to friends as "an account of the witch-hunts leading up to the McCarthy...
...everyone is so pleased with More. His perturbed wife Alice (Allison Weller), provides a strong support performance. Pacing the stage, wringing her hands, worrying over her husband's stubborn adherence to ideals, Alice fears that her husband behaves too much "like a printed book...