Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...change the column name from Gut Check to Zevi Metal? Well, it was really because of nagging suggestions from my editors, my blocking mates, and even my father 3,000 miles away. But I like to think of it as a new column for a new era in Harvard women's hockey...
...talk about his parents' immigration from Montenegro to the town where he was born, Pozarevac in Serbia. He was the son of a teacher who had studied to be an Orthodox priest and a puritanical schoolteacher. They orphaned him through suicide while he was still a young man--his father first, and his mother a decade later. Despite his father's interest in religion, Milosevic never embraced the church. At 18 he turned himself into a Communist Party zealot, assuming so thoroughly the image of a dedicated functionary that admiring colleagues dubbed him "Little Lenin." While still a student...
Alan Mathison Turing was born in London in 1912, the second of his parents' two sons. His father was a member of the British civil service in India, an environment that his mother considered unsuitable for her boys. So John and Alan Turing spent their childhood in foster households in England, separated from their parents except for occasional visits back home. Alan's loneliness during this period may have inspired his lifelong interest in the operations of the human mind, how it can create a world when the world it is given proves barren or unsatisfactory...
...REALITY] For most of his youth, Gore attended private school in Washington, where his father was a Senator. He spent summers and holidays on his family's farm in Carthage, Tenn...
...STATEMENT] "I lived on a farm...[My father] taught me how to clean out hog waste with a shovel and a hose...