Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Phyllis Schlafly and her resistance camp than by the feminist insurgents, who were, at first, so busy recruiting for the barricades that they left the main base vulnerable. Schlafly, however, was a good deal more cunning than anyone first thought. She has potentially a strong feminist background: a daughter of the Depression, she worked in a munitions plant to put herself through Washington University in St. Louis. Feminists might initially have mistaken her for a kind of grandstanding Betty Crocker, but Schlafly and her supporters marshaled all the fear and uncertainty that trails every social revolution, trimmed it and turned...
Jimmy Romano has lived at 29 Gore St. for 32 of his 65 years. Born only five houses away from that address, his wife has never moved from the street. Their only daughter, Lucille, bought a house five blocks away and lives there with her husband and sons...
BORN. To Sun Myung Moon, 62, self-anointed messiah and founder of the Unification Church, which claims 3 million members around the world, and his wife, Korean-born Hak Ja Han, 40: a daughter, their 13th child; in Tarrytown, NY. Name: Jeung Jin Nim (March of Heart). Weight: 7 lbs. 8 oz. Moon, also born in Korea, was convicted in May of conspiracy to evade paying personal income tax and is awaiting sentencing...
...American anthropologist named Greenwood spends several years with the Shan people in Pawlu, a tiny village near the border between China and Burma. He marries and fathers a daughter before news of World War II belatedly reaches him, driving him from his remote adopted home to join the U.S. Army and the larger struggle. In 1949, back in the U.S., he receives a letter from Yang Yulin, a wartime comrade who is now a general in the Chinese Nationalist army. Yang has got hold of an anthropological treasure, the bones of Peking Man. He will flee the advancing Communist troops...
...felled years ago, along with its malevolent leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. SPECTRE is determined this time around to gain control of outer space. Its machinations include a wave of hijackings for huge ransoms and the manufacture of ice cream spiked with a mind-bending drug. Bond and the luscious daughter of an old colleague man age to penetrate the organization's 150-sq.-mi. Texas ranch headquarters, only to face death at the hands of killer ants, man-eating pythons and other unfriendlies. At times, Gardner's stolid prose style makes one long for Ian Fleming...