Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work. He tried the Communist Party and found it guilty of hypocrisy. He refused to endorse extremist positions on either side of the Algerian struggle for independence. "I must condemn a terrorism which strikes blindly in the streets ..." he declared, "and which one day might strike my mother or my family. I believe in justice but I will defend my mother before justice." The famous phrase caused Camus to be mocked for 20 years by leftist intellectuals who uncritically backed the Algerian revolutionaries. He broke with his friend Jean-Paul Sartre when the philosopher tried to suppress news of Stalin...
...walk; Romanenko was to remain behind at Salyut's open hatch. Both were wearing a new type of space suit equipped with a radio and an hour's supply of oxygen. Thus when cosmonauts are working outside an orbiting spacecraft, they require no umbilical link to the mother ship other than a simple tether to keep them from drifting off. Everything was going smoothly during Grechko's extraterrestrial stroll until Salyut passed over the western Pacific Ocean-out of range of Soviet ground stations. Suddenly, Romanenko, who was not tethered, jumped out of the hatch...
Christine says that Ken's mother once demanded that she convert to Judaism and, when rebuffed, said she would do anything to stop the wedding. The father's defense lawyer, however, says the Levitts opposed the wedding not because Christine was a Gentile Evangelical but because their son was unstable. Weeks before the original wedding date, a man who said he was with the Jewish Defense League called the pastor who planned to marry the pair and warned...
...cold, and where they dropped of hunger or cold or exhaustion, there they lay. There were the wheelbarrows, piled high with family goods, father pushing, mother pulling, children walking. Old ladies hobbled with bound feet; sometimes young men carried their mothers piggyback on their shoulders. No one stopped. If children cried over the body of a father or a mother, they were passed, soundlessly. I was seeing people in full flight, where no armed man pursued...
...worst was what I heard, which was about cannibalism. I never saw any man kill another person for meat, but it seemed irrefutably true that people were eating people meat. The usual defense was that the people meat was taken from the dead. In one village a mother was discovered boiling her two-year-old to eat its meat. A father was charged with strangling his two boys to eat them; his defense was that they were already dead. In one village, the army had insisted that...