Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student working at menial jobs and pinching pennies among boys and young men of great wealth. Once he had a fortune, he lived in high style. He bought or built great houses, collected art, stayed only in the best suites in the best hotels. In 1935 he divorced his wife of 12 years (and the mother of his two sons) to marry one of the most glamorous women in America--the already acclaimed editor and playwright, later Congresswoman and ambassador, Clare Boothe. Their marriage was a troubled one from the start, a union of two ambitious, image-conscious people...
...Paris noted it, and Panama. In heedless Manhattan, thousands got out of bed at 6 a.m. to hang over radios. Shanghai and Hankow had never seen so many weddings; Chinese brides deemed it lucky to be married on the day that Elizabeth, heiress to Britain's throne, became the wife of Philip Mountbatten...
...morning walks outside the Secretary-General's Manhattan residence, but only accompanied by two U.N. bodyguards and occasionally a third who scouts the road for gawkers. To relax, he listens to jazz, takes walks in the country and indulges in a daily cigar. But his consuming passion is his wife, Nane, a lawyer and accomplished painter and the niece of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who rescued thousands of Jews from the Nazis during World War II. "They've forged a real partnership," says their friend, author Kati Marton. "I never had the sense she was particularly ambitious...
Just ask investment banker Mark Ragsdale and his wife Leslie, a lawyer, who last October bought a beautiful two-story house north of San Francisco in Mill Valley, up a road that wound through 100-ft. redwoods and past a splashing stream. Then the winter rains started. Toward the end of January, the couple's driveway had started to heave. A week later, the house began to torque and twist so that windows cracked and doors hung askew. "You'd better get out," city inspectors advised. Within two hours, the Ragsdales and two dozen friends started filing...
...Nido slide, but homeowner Gary LaCombe feels lucky to be alive. He vividly remembers watching a tree's mammoth root ball, 12 ft. in diameter, hurtle toward his kitchen window, then veer off at the last minute, narrowly missing his house. Now LaCombe, along with his wife Phyllis and a few hundred of his neighbors, has been evacuated by county officials, barred from returning home because geologists fear that an even larger slide may follow. Says LaCombe, who was forced to leave his job with a metal wholesale company in order to cope with the crisis: "I have lost absolutely...