Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...herself wrote a letter to Figaro deploring the "bad taste" with which it handled her husband's problem, closing her letter with "Je vous méprise [I despise you]." She changed obstetricians after the first one complained that the press would interfere with his work. One camera-laden photographer was surprised on her roof...
...only wins the bread but brings it home. Even if there is a store near by, his wife firmly believes that food brought from town is better and fresher. Every night after work the "dacha husband" (as Chekhov called him) goes shopping, list in hand, and patiently queueing. Then, laden like a pack mule, he must wedge his way into a crowded train. His worst problem: kerosene, still the main cooking fuel in outlying places. The railroad bars it as dangerous, and if the dacha husband is caught carrying it, he will be put off the train and fined...