Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...came up with the idea of paying me and a bunch of the other lads severance to make way for younger workers. Mine amounts to $2,160, which isn't a lot. But to make it easier, they say I can give my job to a son or daughter who is at least 16. Now, since I don't have a daughter...
...private life as in public life, Marius suspects, More was a bit of an actor. Having succeeded at the main chance, he worked equally hard at humility. He played the family man to the hilt. His daughter Margaret was the love of his life. But he constantly harangued his first wife Jane, who bore him four children in seven years. His second wife Alice, whom he married within a month after Jane died at 23, was a testy widow he may have selected precisely because she did not attract him. Sex, Marius suggests, was the "ruling drama of his life...
...radio negotiations dragged on between the plane and control towers in Tehran and Kuwait, the hijackers pressed their demands. Finally, they agreed to let some of the 161 on board the Airbus leave. First, 46 women and children, including an American married to a Pakistani, and her daughter, made their way across the airstrip. All had been stripped of their personal papers and any identifying documents. They were followed by 23 Pakistanis and, later in the week, by a group of 30 men. The terrorists let eight more hostages go on Friday, and at week's end they released...
...October, Seifert was in the hospital suffering from diabetes and a heart ailment. He has now returned home, but can move about only with the aid of a metal crutch. Too frail to travel, he will be represented at this week's Nobel ceremonies by Son Jaroslav and Daughter Jana. Although he is usually unwilling to be interviewed by Western journalists, Seifert received TIME Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald and Eastern Europe Correspondent John Moody in his comfortable, slightly threadbare second-floor apartment in Prague. The 90-min. interview took place in Seifert's book-lined living room...
...Reach, 43, stage and film actor who stars in TV's Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer series; to nine months in prison, after pleading guilty to importing 1.3 oz. of cocaine into Britain last April from France, where he was filming the mini-series Mistral's Daughter; in Reading, England. Keach, who had already completed most of this season's Hammer episodes, began serving the sentence immediately...