Word: husbanding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When I found out that my husband and I had been invited to a gender-segregated wedding reception in Tehran, it was too late to concoct an excuse. So for the first time in my life, I put on a chiffon gown to go hang out with 400 other women. I waved goodbye to my husband as he headed for the men's ballroom, and we agreed that if the evening grew intolerable, we would send text messages to plan our escape...
...story is the same as that of many other military wives. My husband is well on the way to his third tour in Iraq. We have two little girls who barely know their father. Each time he deploys, I brace myself: he may not come home alive. This war is ridiculous. Our soldiers are worn out, the equipment is worn out, and so are our children. How long can we sustain this lifestyle? Every other year, until the war is over, my husband will be deployed. And when my soldier is home, he isn't resting. He is hard...
...Elizabeth Edwards, who also watches over the family’s two youngest children, has continued to publicly campaign for her husband...
...reliance on community medicine, Saito has managed to keep most of his programs in the black, without sacrificing quality. I accompany one the center's physical therapists on a home visit to an elderly couple who live in a drafty house they built themselves. The 61-year-old husband (the couple asked not to be named) has been mostly bed-ridden for seven years, since he broke several vertebrae in a fall. The visits, which cost around $60 each, are funded almost entirely by the government in keeping with Japan's system of socialized medicine, but they allow...
Wishfort’s daughter and co-conspirator with Mirabell is Mrs. Fainall (Rachel E. Flynn ’09), whose husband is having an affair with Mrs. Marwood (Sophie C. Kargman ’08), a woman who is trying to thwart Mirabell. Wishfort wants Millament to marry Sir Willful Witwoud (Rob D. Salas ’08), a loud and crass gentryman from the countryside, whose brother (Barry A. Shafrin ’09) lives in the city and has become a full-time fop who helps Mirabell with his schemes. Got all that...