Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks after he disappeared following his secret marriage to the daughter of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Tomas (Tommy) Manotoc, 32, resurfaced to tell a harrowing tale. He was kidnaped by Communist guerrillas and held in a mountain hideout in the Sierra Madre, he said, and then rescued by intelligence units of the armed forces after a brief clash. At a press conference at a military base in Manila, a haggard and frightened-looking Manotoc declared that "there's definitely no truth" to charges that the Marcos family had been involved in his kidnaping...
...since he had been blindfolded or forced to face a concrete wall. Although he said at the press conference that his kidnapers had not mentioned the marriage, he later told his family that the abductors had beaten him and warned him not to "mess with the President's daughter." He also told them that his "rescue" had been staged. The Communist underground, meanwhile, issued a statement denying responsibility. It noted that Manotoc's captors had sent two ransom notes, and pointed out that kidnaping for ransom had not been one of its tactics...
...until your hair turns white." In practice, however, divorce, while almost impossible for women to initiate, has traditionally been easy for men. All the husband had to do was send an emissary to his father-in-law to declare that he "cannot worship at the ancestral shrine with your daughter any longer." The father-in-law usually acquiesced, with apologies for not having brought his daughter up properly...
...White Leghorn and an Andalusian Blue to produce a red-white-and-blue chicken-the Bird Americana-as she called it, which she proposed as the new national emblem. By the time of the next World War, Lillian was convinced that the Communists had driven her poor daughter crazy. And so, in 1944, she declared Frances insane and had her locked up at the Western State Hospital at Steilacoom, Wash...
...been better weeks than last. In Washington, dad "Tip" got lambasted by the President in their annual tussle over budget cuts. Back home, the family suffered a couple of minor embarrassments; the speaker's mother, minutes late to a Cambridge ward caucus, was locked out and prohibited from voting; daughter-in-law Jackie ran for one of the delegate slots in Boston's word 5 caucus-and lost. Worst of all, as the week went on, and the official tallies from the state's roughly 600 ward caucuses trickled is, it became increasingly clear than son Tommy had failed miserably...