Word: moms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...While Mom and Dad bundled off to Europe on White House business, Amy Carter bundled up for her first ever ski lessons in Crested Butte, Colo. "She's pretty aggressive-and that's important-and brave too," said Instructor Mike Wells after Amy's first day on the slopes. "She tried to kiss a tree once, and she got up laughing." Amy, who is staying with Carter family friends in Colorado, will get a course in skiing fundamentals during her six-day visit, says Wells, and a chance to test her new skills on the resort...
...Mom...
Home chefs and co-chefs and sauciers' apprentices of all ages have learned to prize and prepare subtle meals that challenge not only the credulity of the Jamestown ghost but also the credibility of that mythic Mom for whose apple pie, it was alleged, World War II was waged. For a nation that has traditionally doted on T-bone steaks, beer and ice cream, this is a social, economic and aesthetic development worth pondering. And it is no passing fancy...
...York City's biggest bank, second largest in the nation and the world (after Bank of America). It is not, obviously, your friendly, flexible Bert Lance lending and saving shop. It is a hard-nosed company that will as swiftly foreclose a multimillion-dollar high-rise as a mom-and-pop delicatessen if the mortgage payments lag. Considering the cost of Manhattan real estate and the sensitivities of its stockholders, Citicorp might well have elected to erect yet an other no-frills cereal box as its new showplace...
...They sat, dry of new ideas, among mounds of cuisinards, trash mashers, yogurt-makers, decorator cologne sets, soap-on-a-rope, leisure suits, pulsating shower heads, vibrabeds, three-dimensional chess sets, digital watches, coffee-table pictorial history books, pet rocks, ant farms, pastel toothpicks, statuettes inscribed "world's greatest mom" and world's greatest dad," incense holders, lava lamps, shampoos smelling like exotic fruit, toy rifles with plastic arsenals big enough to defeat plastic armies, desk organizers, and of course metal-and-plastic Christmas trees. And they had no idea what to do with...