Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said, continue to pledge "a life of never-ending service and a heart of never-ending love" to her people, but she would not run for office during the forthcoming parliamentary elections. Not to worry, though: the next day, in spite of Marcos' rule against dynasty building, Elder Daughter Imee, 28, was named a candidate in her father's home province...
...years ago, but William Faulkner was never able to publish the 88-page, hand-bound collection. Vision in Spring was eventually misplaced and nearly forgotten until 1979, when Faulkner Scholar Judith Sensibar, of Chicago, stumbled on a photocopy of the book in the attic of the writer's daughter Jill Faulkner Summers. Sensibar's find will be published by the University of Texas Press next month. Faulkner's opinion of himself as "a failed poet" is unlikely to be challenged by the volume's 14 linked poems (sample: "The wind grows louder about me, shrill with...
...wider investigation, and in November the school shut down. Twenty-five families have filed civil suits against the nursery, some asking more than $1 million in damages. "Virginia McMartin was a sweet little old lady," said an incredulous father, whose three-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter were, in his words, "brutalized" at the center. "We thought it was the best place for our children...
...limit to my desires," Mme. de Maintenon confided in a letter to a friend. Few women in history have brought that kind of ambition to such a satisfactory climax. Born in prison in 1635, the daughter of a well-born conman and habitual murderer reached for the moon from earliest childhood. By the age of 48 she had embraced the sun. Her marriage to his Coruscating Magnificence, the Sun King, Louis XIV, lasted for 32 years...
MARRIED. Christina Onassis, 33, daughter of the late Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, over whose empire she now presides; and Thierry Roussel, 31, French businessman and heir to a pharmaceutical fortune; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Paris...