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Word: wifely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...means of clever verbal games. When is smoking pot not smoking pot? Clinton had an answer for this paradox. And according to one of the Arkansas state troopers involved in the suddenly tame-seeming Troopergate scandal, Clinton can answer an even harder one: When is fooling around on your wife permissible under the Ten Commandments? He told me, the trooper recalled in the American Spectator, that he had researched the subject in the Bible and oral sex was not adultery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: When Sex Is Not Really Having Sex | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...impressive in young women. "Large men of large appetites" is one of the euphemisms that have been used when broaching the subject of their legendary womanizing. Jordan's reputation as a ladies' man dates back to the 1970s, when the civil rights leader was traveling constantly and his first wife Shirley, who died in 1985, was restricted to a wheelchair by multiple sclerosis. Jordan, who remarried in 1986, does not discuss his reputation except in the most oblique terms: "I like people. I've always liked people. I like all kinds of people. And I'm not going to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: The Master Fixer in a Fix | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

Mary Perry, wife of the deceased, worked for him as a teaching fellow when she was a student at the Graduate School of Education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bureau of Study Counsel Founder Dies | 1/28/1998 | See Source »

...phalanx" in three separate clips without giggling once -- compared Clinton's seemingly airtight denial to earlier Gennifer Flowers statements, which are widely rumored to have been retracted under oath by Bill at the Paula Jones deposition. "There's a reason we're parsing," Mary Matalin, GOP apologist and Carville wife told Williams: "We're talking about a kid and a President who should know better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Word | 1/27/1998 | See Source »

...winning ticket was worth $2.17 million, which Phyllis expected to be split evenly. But the next day, when Michael, 38, and his wife Jillanne went to claim the purse, there was no mention of Phyllis. That night Michael told his parents that he had bought the winning stub separately from their $40 monthly pool. Sorry, Ma. Phyllis, a sixtyish retiree, then decided to remind her son of what happens when you don't play well with others: she's suing him, claiming breach of an oral contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sorry, Ma | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

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