Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John Stubbs was outstanding," he said. "He has been a careful, concerned, attentive senior tutor," said Graham, who is also professor of the history of religion and Islamic studies. "We also had his wife as an outstanding, active member of the community...
...live-vividly-in-the-moment approach is a handy tool that has 1,001 uses around the house. Thus: a husband comes home at five in the morning with the scent of another woman lingering about his person. "Where were you?" the wife demands. "Darling," the husband replies, "I am vividly in the present tense. I dare you to join me there!" (Good luck in trying that...
...take the little restaurant on the beach at Xia Xia, a great sweep of sand running for miles north of Maputo. Nuno Fonseca and his second wife Paola spent the war years in Maputo but came back to her largely destroyed hometown in early 1994. Once there were swank hotels along the strand for tourists. "When we got here there was nothing, nothing," says Nuno...
...later years Spock acknowledged that he had not been an ideal husband, or a perfect father to his two sons, Michael and John. "I never kissed them [when they were young]," he said. His wife Jane, feeling neglected by her husband's fame and frequent travels, struggled with mental illness and alcoholism. The two were divorced in 1976. Jane died...
Shortly before Spock's death, his second wife Mary made an appeal to friends and admirers to help with her husband's medical bills, which had reached $16,000 a month. His lingering last days contrasted sadly with the vigor and energy of his life. He updated his book constantly, always trying to make it better. The seventh edition contains his "permissive" thoughts on children and video games: "Most computer games are a colossal waste of time." This book will be published on May 2, which would have been the good doctor's 95th birthday...