Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time he feared doing so would slow the town's progress. By 1995, as the Alley spread west into Wilmington--driving some Main Street shops out of business, drawing others to the strip--it devoured a vacant area known as the Point, where Kent Pickard and his wife had for years run a farm stand called Garden Delight. Pickard's white vegetable booths now collect dust behind his old brick house, because the Point is inhabited by a Donatos Pizza, a Damon's rib house and a Bob Evans Family Restaurant...
...first decade of her marriage, she had been the insecure, dutiful doctor's wife while Rick pursued a career as a medical director of hospital emergency rooms in Cincinnati and later St. Louis. They lived in a series of crowded subdivisions where Leslie raised three kids. In 1989 she read a magazine article about a couple that ran a bed and breakfast. "I told Rick, 'This is what I want to do.' And in 10 years of marriage, he'd never heard me say that...
...month-old Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily, to join him in Australia for a four-month stay after Christmas. Geldof said he didn't want his children to be away for so long. Angered, Hutchence phoned him and, according to a neighbor at the Ritz, shouted, "She's not your wife anymore!" Geldof denies there was a row and said Hutchence made no sense on the phone. Hutchence, he said, had barraged him with calls for months and "was always off his head...
Launching the Million Woman March of African Americans in Philadelphia with her familiar clenched-fist salute, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was, as usual, center stage on her recent visit to the U.S. But back home last week, the ex-wife of South Africa's President faced a less flattering limelight. It was her turn to go before the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on human-rights violations during the apartheid era, and the testimony there further clouded the reputation of the woman once called Mother of the Nation...
...move was to allow their children to escape the glare of celebrity and to grow up with a sense of normality. She contends it was really designed to cover his pursuit of Chantal Collopy, a South African whose husband eventually sued Spencer for "enticement and alienation" of his wife's affection. Lockwood's brief describes Spencer as a serial adulterer whose unfaithfulness began less than six months into their 1989 marriage (the British journalist with whom he had that initial liaison sold the story of their affair to the tabloid News of the World in 1991). Lockwood's lawyer said...