Word: grandchildren
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...Dillon's father, for one, always wondered about the autopsy report and never believed the death was an accident. Says Bonnie Mead, who was Martin Dillon's secretary: "We don't know why people put blinders on in this town." Nevertheless, the elder Dillon kept his peace until his grandchildren were older. In 1989 he hired a private investigator to review the evidence and by 1995 had got the authorities to exhume his son's body for another autopsy...
...years is a long time at any job, much less coaching basketball in the high pressure of the Atlantic Coast Conference, and for the past few years Smith has been talking about retiring to spend more time with his wife, psychologist Linnea Smith, his five children and their grandchildren. "We were always able to talk him out of it," said successor Bill Guthridge, his assistant for 31 years. "This time we couldn't do it." Smith said he realized it was time to go two weeks ago, when he was watching his protege, Larry Brown, push the 76ers through...
Every summer my parents rented a cottage at the shore, lugging Melmac plates and jelly glasses, setting up a beach encampment by day, playing cards by night, always with the same families. Part of the pleasure came from there being ever more children and grandchildren--and the same spouses. All wasn't sweetness in the family: doors were slammed, tears shed, dreams thwarted. With her energy and brains, my mother might have run General Motors. Instead she ran us, and felt there was no greater happiness. As we race from boardroom to courtroom, soccer practice to PTA, with hardly...
...with the prostrate cancer that will reduce him to the impotence he so fears, Turnbull anticipates disease and death, imagining his body a "swamp in whose simmering depths a fatal infirmity must be brewing." His wife and doctor seem to him murderous, longing for his death, while his grandchildren and children seem frighteningly indifferent...
Medearis is survived by his wife, Ellen, four children, two brothers, and two grandchildren...