Word: moms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everything about Mrs. Bush, dubbed the "Silver Fox" for her hair color and personality, has been applauded and publicized. You knew Grandma Barbara was something special when she converted Nancy Reagan's exercise room into an extra bedroom for the kids. Now there's a Mom...
...fence is some eight feet high, so kids tossed their books and balls over the top. After signing, the players threw the objects back over the fence, in one of Viola's favorite spring rituals. "I was a shy kid," remembers the Long Island native, "so I had my mom ask for Rick Barry's autograph at a Nets game once. He refused. So I take as much time as I can signing autographs. The kids take it as a challenge. I'm easy to get, but some guys are tough...
...house, sparks fly. Insults fly. Silverware, toasters and golf clubs fly, too. By the end of Sam Shepard's True West, the kitchen is a disaster area worthy of any Harvard undergrad's living quarters. Not even the cast from Risky Business could clean up this mess before Mom got home...
...each of the four steps of University Hall had its own leadership and prolonged discussions through the night time hours about what our posture (political and physical) would be if and when a police bust happened. For years afterward, I wore those orangish brown wool pants with pride--my Mom had patched with a big black patch the rip at the knee from getting knocked down the steps by the cops. Did I get clubbed, kicked, or shoved down the steps? I don't know; I shut my eyes when they got within a few yards of me."--Dale Borman...
...mom's need to validate her own victimizations" may have influenced the children, Lindahl said. She characterized the mother's state of mind with regard to sexual abuse as one of "hypervigilance" and "obsessive concern...