Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...father at times worked at local hauling jobs with a pickup truck, and as a railroad hand. He had also spent two years in prison for larceny. Ray turned to crime, following the precedent of his father, an uncle and a brother. His parents split in 1952, after his mother had become an alcoholic...
...procession, followed by Princess Margaret and her two children* and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, 75, Elizabeth's aunt. Then came the other royals: the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, Princess Alexandra, Prince Michael of Kent, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother accompanied by her daughter's younger sons, Prince Andrew, 17, and Prince Edward...
Many of the bills' sponsors are cancer sufferers or relatives of patients, and fervently believe in Laetrile. New Jersey Assemblyman John Gregorio, whose father has cancer and whose mother and two uncles died from it, takes regular doses of the drug...
...China. Some say that Fairbank's editing of the extensive series, in addition to his writing one of the volumes himself, may take the professor the rest of his life. But the Fairbanks seem to have the gift of the East for age as well as wisdom. Fairbank's mother, who is over 100, is still living on her own in Washington. Future alumni reports from Fairbank will probably include not only news about the progress of his books and of his travels to Asia this September, but also reports on the practice of frisbee, his favorite "sport;" then there...
...well served by Nabokov: His Life in Part. The book is a valuable document that provides the sort of details that would have grounded Speak, Memory. Field delves into Nabokov's genealogy: the evidence is circumstantial, but the possibility of noble Tartar ancestors is strong. In his mother's family tree there are Baltic barons and Teutonic knights. There are added highlights to previous glowing portraits of Nabokov's father V.D. Nabokov, an authority on criminal law and a courageous liberal in Russia's first, shortlived Parliament. He was killed in 1922 in Berlin, while preventing...