Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Rhodes told 70 Republicans at a $25-a-plate luncheon in rural Carroll County that employment is the key campaign issue. With typical bombast, he attacked bureaucrats who "do not-understand the courageous mother who has to line her children up and say, 'There's no Christmas this year because your father doesn't have a job.' " Rhodes claims credit for attracting 481,000 new jobs to Ohio and cutting welfare rolls by 40,000 since...
Thurmond's willingness to change with the times helps keep him the front runner in the most recent polls, even though Ravenel has benefited from appearances on the hustings by some prominent out-of-staters: Jimmy Carter, his mother, his son Chip, and two Cabinet Secretaries. Vows Thurmond: "I'm gonna whup...
Part of the problem has been chicano political passivity, which includes a hesitancy on the part of many longtime Mexican-American residents to become U.S. citizens, often because, no matter how permanent their ties to the U.S., those to Mexico are even stronger. State Assemblyman Art Torres' own mother could not vote for him in 1974 because she did not become naturalized until the next year. But now, says Ignacio Lozano, publisher of Los Angeles' Spanish-language daily La Opinión, there is "very clearly a political awakening." In 1976 members of Cesar Chavez's United...
...corned beef -one spoonful for each person. There is only half a gallon of water left, but we don't dare go up into the streets. When a dying dog came into our shelter, a boy said he would take it away and bury it. His mother told him not to, but he wouldn't listen. He picked up the dog and went up the steps. He never came back. Maybe the Lord has decided that this is the end of the world.' The telephone line went dead...
...women are mother and daughter, and their combat, on which Director Ingmar Bergman casts a dour and perhaps by now somewhat weary Northern eye, is all the more intense and enduring because it is grounded in love. Charlotte, the mother (formidably played by Ingrid Bergman-no relation to Ingmar-in her first Swedish language film in decades), is a concert pianist, acclaimed and prosperous, sailing grandly into late middle age. Eva, the daughter (Liv Ullmann in granny glasses, with a few lines of graceful weathering allowed to be visible on her ineffable forehead), is a church organist, the wife...