Word: dad
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...locals and mocks the boy's affection for "going native." The elder Booth "was a natural-born bully," writes his ever-upbeat son. "On the other hand, I did grow up mixing a mean cocktail." The heroine is his mother - spunky, intelligent and curious about all things Chinese. Dad, a civilian employee of the navy, wants to go home; Mum wants to stay. As the family heads for the ship that will return them to England, she impulsively grabs Martin and leaps from the car. Gweilo is artfully shy of detail about what comes next, and sadly there will...
...used to living within my budget and not to feel deprived because of it. And the other thing that I know, which is a great comfort to me, is how happy I can be, for instance, in Africa, in the bush, treating patients as I used to, helping my dad, sleeping in very clean but simple comfort, without any material appendages. I know I can be happy doing that...
...against the war in Washington in October 1967 (his second date with my mother, a year or so later, was at another peace rally) as that he cut a low-rent lyrical folk-pop album at the end of the decade. Sure, cynics might brand the DNC itself a dad trying too hard to be cool, but I for one appreciated the myriad nods to a decade when change somehow managed both to happen on a huge scale and to aim far higher than it could ever reach...
When I was a kid, we always went to movies, and I loved the experience. My dad liked the popcorn at movies better than anyplace else. I still get a fond feeling when I smell popcorn--and not the air-popped kind but the real McCoy. It's a fairly fattening proposition, I might...
...then my dad looked at me: “Yeah, good idea. Bow out and leave the decisions to the complacent conservatives...