Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father of a beer belch that could knock down every drop of loose water in the locker-room shower was, of course, Babe Ruth. "When the Babe left the train for the ball park," relates Pete Rose, as if Rose were not only alive then but could still smell the yeast, "he would remind the porter to have the bathtub full of beer by the time he returned." Rose got the story straight from Waite Hoyt, the late pitcher and alcoholic, who along with Third Baseman Joe Dugan was a pallbearer at Ruth's funeral in August...
...quick to denounce the invasion as a first step toward the seizure of the oil fields and warm-water ports of the Persian Gulf, ) and as part of a continuing overall Soviet design for the conquest of the world. More moderate experts, like Diplomat and Historian George Kennan, the father of the doctrine that the U.S. and its allies must "contain" Soviet expansionism around the globe, had another explanation. They believed that Leonid Brezhnev and the other Kremlin gerontocrats were seeking a buffer zone against Islamic ferment in Iran, much as Joseph Stalin had erected the Iron Curtain to protect...
...British civil servant who sided with the colonies rather than the empire and became an adviser to King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. Harold was born in India, and in childhood acquired the lasting nickname of Kim, the courageous boy spy in Rudyard Kipling's tale. He attended his father's schools, Westminster and Cambridge. Philby met Burgess, Maclean and Blunt at Cambridge but insisted that they were not recruited there. In Vienna, where he lived after graduation, he joined a Communist cell and was assigned lifetime duties: to return to Britain and penetrate its intelligence service...
...Bank and resistance to working in Israel itself, most men spend their days idly ( meeting on street corners. A Jalazun laborer who made $400 a month before the intifadeh is now lucky to earn a tenth of that. "We no longer eat meat," says Ali Abdul Khadar Khalil, 56, father of nine. "People are getting desperate." But, he adds defiantly, "any people searching for independence must remember it can't be achieved without suffering...
Many Palestinians are going back to the land. Nawal Rabi, 38, spends much of her day hacking out a garden behind her house in Jalazun. She is planting tomatoes, cucumbers and moloquia, an Arab green. With two brothers in jail and her father dead, Nawal struggles just to eat. In Sinjil, a West Bank village nearby, army roadblocks have cut off traffic for the past two months. Unable to drive to market, Hosneyah Khalil feeds her six children with the produce from her fields. She also has bought goats for milk. "We will show them we can live," she says...