Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most notable sign was a frontpage report in the New York Times, immediately picked up by wire services and printed throughout the nation, that the Senator had talked during the congressional recess with his mother Rose, 89, and his estranged wife Joan, and that both had assured him of their support if he decided to seek the presidency. Each had earlier made separate public statements to the same effect. What was different was that the Times had got its story from Kennedy's Washington office. This was taken as evidence that Kennedy now wanted to publicize his family...
...incidents ranging from absurd to chilling. Five years ago, the I.R.A. was plagued by corruption and laxity, McMullen said. Once in 1974 he could not assemble a squad to bomb a British barracks in Northern Ireland because "Sean had to go to Mass and Seamus had to visit his mother and Kevin had to milk the cows. It sounded like one of those Irish jokes...
...Monty Python's Life of Brian. The film is a send-up biblical epic recounting the biography of a chap born in the manger down the alley from the one people sing about each Christmas. Brian (Graham Chapman) is just a regular guy. He has a domineering mother, basically cowardly nature and no messianic complex whatever. But circumstances force him into contact with, among others, a lisping Pilate, an underground revolutionary group that spends more time in ideological debate than in overthrowing the Romans, and all sorts of people who think they require a savior and decide that Brian...
...Carter's mother was in New York yesterday to endorse a new line of cookware...
...Chinese (in June 1972)...had invited me and Democratic Majority Leader Hale Boggs to visit in June with our wives and several members of our staffs. As a youngster I used to dig in the sand on the beaches of Lake Michigan. If I dug deep enough, my mother told me, I'd wind up in China. Now I was actually going to make the trip...