Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Cecelia Williams, her two children tucked in bed, decided to visit her sister elsewhere in the complex. While she was away, a man in blue jogging shorts and a T shirt broke a window, climbed into the sparsely furnished home, and carried off Williams' ten-year-old daughter Andrea. Hours later, as police combed the area, Williams' husband Willie and a restive throng of worried neighbors crowded into the small apartment to speculate on the girl's whereabouts. A local television camera crew covering the abduction shot heart-tugging footage of the angry, grieving parents...
...historians agree that the future King Henry II of France married Italy's Catherine de Médicis for her ice cream recipes in 1533. Some say he liked her pasta more. In any case, the Italians lost a daughter but not a dish. They have remained, to this day, among the world's supreme ice cream makers. Americans, who are the world's supreme ice cream gulpers (15 quarts per capita per annum), are only now beginning to make that luscious discovery en masse. In the heat-racked summer of '83, people are screaming...
...academic community go far beyond publish or perish. There is the oh-so-smooth college president who is scheming to become a political bigwig. There is the cuckolded football coach whose wanton wife is exchanging signals with the star quarterback. There is the ogreish dean who keeps his pristine daughter locked away in his gothic manse. Meanwhile, no one seems to be paying much attention to books, lectures, homework or grades. That is because Alden University exists only in a mythical grove called Soapland and in the mind of a woman who creates worlds that flicker on the mental screens...
...have thousands of others on a month-old telethon put on by the Seoul-based Korean Broadcasting System (KBS-TV). Called Searching for Separated Families, the show has reunited some 3,000 South Korean families sundered by the war. Mrs. Kim Ok Soon and her daughter came together last month. Kim Sung Soo and his mother finally found each other a few weeks ago. Huh Hyun Chul learned that his sister is alive and living in Cheju, a resort island off the southern coast. One elderly woman even found her long-lost sister seated in the same row with...
...condominium from an afternoon jog when he was lured into a car, handcuffed and then taken south to the U.S. border at Niagara Falls. "This is a gotcha," Johnsen allegedly told Jaffe, who contends that the bounty hunters beat him. Local police, alerted by Jaffe's daughter, refused to intervene when he appealed to them at the Niagara Falls International Airport. Kear and Johnsen took him aboard a chartered jet waiting to fly to Florida...