Word: mother
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Tiny, gray-eyed, her face deeply seamed with the passing years, Mother Teresa received the news with characteristic lack of fuss in the Missionaries of Charity motherhouse in Calcutta. She has won an array of international honors, and though this one carried the biggest stipend so far-$190,000-she took it in stride. "Personally, I am unworthy," she said in her first response to the award...
...Mother Teresa was born in 1910 to Albanian parents and baptized Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in what is now Skoplje, Yugoslavia. Even at the age of twelve she wanted to "go out and give the love of Christ." By the time she was 18, Agnes had joined the Irish branch of Loreto nuns who were working in Calcutta, where she soon began teaching geography at St. Mary's High School...
...every kind of tragedy in the overcrowded city, Mother Teresa and her nuns managed to create a measure of consolation. They collected abandoned babies from gutters and garbage heaps and tried to nurse them back to health. They brought in the dying so they might die under care and among friends. Eventually the order built leprosariums, children's homes, havens for women, the handicapped and the old. The deepest consolation offered, though, was something that went beyond physical care. "For me each one is an individual," Mother Teresa once explained. "I can give my whole heart to that person...
Louis neighborhood in 1919. An Irish-American mother, on the lower rungs of the middle class, and her four daughters are sweating out an August vigil for the sole son and brother, waiting for him to come back from service in World...
...mother, Liz, played by Jo Henderson with skill, zest and daring, is rather like the father in "Da, " a character who follows you right out of the theater...