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Word: mother (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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McGuire said at the first trial that the victim of manslaughter had to be "alive outside the body of his or her mother." His statement suggested that if the jury believed the testimony of Giminez-Jimeno, it would have to acquit Edelin...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Supreme Court Overrules Edelin Conviction Charges | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

McGuire instructed the jury before it gave the verdict that a body is only alive if it shows a steady heartbeat and respiration outside the mother's body...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Supreme Court Overrules Edelin Conviction Charges | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

Even the President-elect's mother was surprised by the scope of his ambition. Miss Lillian recalls teasingly asking him one day in 1973, "Whatcha gonna do when you're not Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the Year: I'm Jimmy Carter, and... | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...Jimmy's dead father's elder brother. A short, gentle-voiced man, he haunts his son Hugh's antiques store on Main Street, meeting all with old-fashioned manners and a memory that runs back, clear and voluminous, to the early '90s, well before his mother Nina moved here to Plains with him, his three sisters and his brother James Earl. For with all his tendrils of memory and hearsay that reach from the main stem back toward the Revolution, England and Ireland, Mr. Alton starts his own tale where he knows it to start-with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Family Stories: The Carters in Plains | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...farm wife and nothing else; listen, I'm country." Country covers a good many things-most of the life of mankind, for one-but what she seems to be asking to mean is naive, innocent. Again the face talks when the mouth reneges-her mother's face on Gloria, 30 years younger, broader, lined differently but as deeply. Even if she hadn't, in self-defense, just published an eloquent account (Good Housekeeping, January) of her own large sadness-an imprisoned son, William, 30-you'd see that her eyes and smiling mouth have long since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Family Stories: The Carters in Plains | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

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