Search Details

Word: wifely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...still the better short-term deal. Consider Sacramento, Calif., where rent runs about 40% of the monthly cost of buying, half of what it did a decade ago. Of course, not everyone can wait for the trough to become a homeowner. "If you just got married and your wife is pregnant with twins, you've not got much of a choice," says Taylor. "Just buy carefully and plan to stay for a number of years, because it may take that long for home prices to increase again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Homeowners Can Do | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

...read these words to my wife, who is obstinately oblivious to my humor, style and compassion, and was surprised by her immediate reaction: "How did he get our address?" I'm sure Dick Cheney, in his undisclosed location, had no trouble finding our undisclosed location, I told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pen Pal | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

...breed of sheep named after him. Peren launched the Peregrine Wines label in 1998 in partnership with oenophile oncologist Murray Brennan of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. (Brennan visits for vacations.) Peren's connection with the land that Peregrine has under vine comes through his wife's grandfather, who won a small plot in a card game. The Peren family also has a single-vineyard Pinot Noir called Two Sisters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Zealand's Great Performer | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

...wife, unblinking, said, "But seriously. We're not listed." I turned to our 2-year-old and said, "They can't find Osama, but they tracked down yo' mama." The toddler adhered a Cheerio to my face and walked away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pen Pal | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

BABY BOOMERS KNOW HER AS the icy matriarch on TV's hit prime-time soap Falcon Crest, as Ronald Reagan's first wife and as mother of Maureen and Michael Reagan. Yet in the 1950s, the unpretentious Jane Wyman was one of Hollywood's most respected stars. She broke out of B movies in Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend and went on to vibrant performances in such films as 1948's Johnny Belinda (her portrayal of a deaf and mute rape victim won her an Oscar) and Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright. She broke her long silence on Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 24, 2007 | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

Previous | 526 | 527 | 528 | 529 | 530 | 531 | 532 | 533 | 534 | 535 | 536 | 537 | 538 | 539 | 540 | 541 | 542 | 543 | 544 | 545 | 546 | Next