Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doctor like his uncle. At 15, he ! would take the subway on weekends from Brooklyn to Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, pinch a white lab coat, and take a seat in the balcony of the operating room, transfixed for hours by amputations and appendectomies. Back home, while his father was at the office, he would persuade his mother to help her precocious only child round up stray cats and dump them into a sterile trash can with an ether-soaked sponge so that he could perform exploratory surgery. He brags that he never lost...
Here's another one from the NCAA files: Reports in yesterday's Globe say that the NCAA might be investigating a "special benefit" violation involving Rumeal Robinson, the Cambridge native who iced the 1989 NCAA baketball title for the Michigan Wolverines. Louis Ford, Robinson's father, went to watch his son play in Seattle, Wash., thanks to a group of local business leaders, who funded his trip. Yeah, real serious stuff, here...
Expediency is often the father of contention. In a hurried effort to placate Jesse Jackson at last summer's Democratic Convention, Michael Dukakis and his forces ratified significant changes in the party's complex rules governing presidential nominating procedures. One alteration would drastically cut the number of superdelegates, party leaders who automatically become unpledged delegates. Another requires that all primaries and caucuses award delegates on the basis of proportional representation, as opposed to giving extra delegates to the winner in some state contests...
...DEADLY SILENCE (ABC, April 16, 9 p.m. EDT). One of the most tragic consequences of child abuse is recounted in this docudrama about a Long Island, N.Y., teenager who hired a friend to kill the father who had molested her for years...
Ideologically correct couples have ways of working things out. When Skye Kerr married Deane Rynerson, they manufactured a new name: Rykerson. Some couples give the father's surname to daughters and the mother's surname to sons. For their firstborn, Pierce Barker and Carol Frost of Friendship, Md., did not bother with family at all, nor were they intimidated by the perils of hyphenating. They gave the child the surname Roth-Tubman, after the author Philip Roth and the 19th century abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Similarly, in Newton, Mass., Harry Finkelstein and Jamie Kelem junked their surnames and became the Keshets...