Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soon, though, students' concerns will no longer preoccupy the dean. When Professor of Law Robert C. Clark assumes his post next month, Vorenberg and his wife Betty will travel to Indonesia and India, and possibly China...
Truitt, on leave from the Iowa, flatly denied that he or Hartwig was a culprit. At a press conference with his wife last week, he claimed that the rumors proved that the Navy was "at a loss" to explain the tragedy. Said the sailor: "They're just looking for a scapegoat...
...similar role as Baker's boss. But before the relationship could be established, home-office politics required that Baker pay dues in New York City. Underemployed in the Times's vast, overstaffed city room, the "jumper," as he describes himself, guiltily plowed through Dostoyevsky and corresponded with his wife Mimi. "The Times felt like an insurance office," he observes. "Writing a 600-word story seemed to be considered a whole week's work." Meyer Berger, the paper's star feature writer and house historian, put the situation in perspective: "Mister Ochs ((Adolph Ochs, publisher from 1896 to 1935)) always liked...
Gorbachev heard far blunter words than Sakharov's as the day wore on. Leonid Sukhov, a driver from Kharkov, stunned the assemblage by comparing Gorbachev "to the great Napoleon, who fearing neither bullets nor death, led the nation to victory, but owing to sycophants and his wife, transformed the republic into an empire." Marju Lauristin, a prominent Estonian nationalist, asked who in the ruling Politburo "knew in advance that troops would be used in Tbilisi." Others complained about Gorbachev's failure to improve his people's standard of living and mentioned rumors that he is building a fancy dacha...
Foley's top aide is his wife of almost 21 years, Heather. She joined her husband's staff in 1971, two years after earning her law degree, and serves now as his unpaid administrative assistant. Washington consultant Ted Van Dyk, an old friend, says that Foley needs someone like Heather to run interference for him. "He suffers fools," says Van Dyk. "Not gladly, but he suffers them...