Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bilozerchev's natural gifts were nearly destroyed one night in October 1985, when he drove his father's car off a road outside Moscow after celebrating his engagement to Svetlana Serkeli with too much champagne. The bones in his left leg shattered into 40 pieces, and amputation was seriously considered...
...feet, then miraculously was snatched by a thermal and carried away. Kruse leaped on his bicycle and rode desperately after it -- one mile, two miles, five miles. He came home stunned. "How'd it go?" his dad asked. "It flew five miles," said young Kruse. "That's crazy," the father declared. "Where'd you launch it, where'd it land?" Kruse told him. The father fell silent, stared at the youngster, then responded in awed tones, "That's five miles." Kruse has tutored so many Kansas kids in the fine art of modeling that he has lost count...
...judged unfit for human habitation has shrunk from 25% in 1974 to 10% today. The main beneficiaries have been Catholic residents. Building on that, British and Irish moderates hope, will eventually lead the Catholic community to turn against the gunmen. "The only people who can beat the I.R.A.," said Father Denis Faul, "are the little women of the Falls Road...
...father started out shining shoes, mowing lawns and "watching cars" in that estimable neighborhood. When he eventually found formal work, ultimately as a brakeman on the railroad, it carried him far from home for considerable stretches. With a willow switch, Mary took charge. "She applied some disciplines just for discipline's sake," recalls Jackie, "like making us wear our clothes back-to-back. 'Why the same thing two days in a row?' I'd plead. 'Can't I stagger them?' 'No,' she'd say. 'This is the rule of the house...
...install a landing pit off the porch. Jackie's main co-conspirator was her older brother Al, whom she could beat at everything. "I didn't have a big brother," Al says. "I had Jackie." Through a fluttering porch-side window shade, enjoying the sounds of plotting, their father heard 14-year-old Jackie announce one evening that someday she was going to be in the Olympic Games...