Word: elders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the names of trees you can make a fine pagan bouquet of words: hornbeam, ginkgo, quickbeam, oak, white willow, tamarind, Lombardy poplar, false cypress, elder, laburnum, larch, baobab, black gum, rowan, hazel, whitebeam, tree of heaven...
...want to see my father again," David Rothenberg, 13, declared last week in Buena Park, Calif. He is still horribly scarred from the burns he suffered in 1983 when Charles Rothenberg, in a custody fight with his ex-wife, poured kerosene over the boy and set him afire. The elder Rothenberg, 49, was released last week from a California penitentiary, having qualified for parole after serving just half of a 13-year sentence for arson and attempted murder. To keep him away from David, the state will spend an estimated $648,000 for three years of round-the-clock surveillance...
...victory marked an extraordinarily quick rise by Collor, scion of a wealthy political and publishing family in Alagoas. His father Arnon de Mello, a federal Senator, earned a bizarre niche in Brazilian history in 1963 when he shot a fellow legislator to death on the Senate floor. The elder Collor served several months in jail before it was decided that he had acted in self- defense...