Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Housing begins to slide In California, where the rise in housing prices has been stratospheric, couples have long been willing to sell their souls to the savings and loan - and rent out mother-in-law for window cleaning - in order to realize their dry-wall dreams. But now there are definite signs of slowdown in that willingness to shell out small for tunes for not-so-special homes...
...attack, while running; in Washington County, Md. A veteran of six Boston Marathons, Byron collapsed while training for his eighth 50-mile John F. Kennedy Memorial Hike/Run. Byron was heavily favored to win re-election next month to the congressional seat once held by his father and later, his mother...
...Excursions of Mr. Brouček, a light, satirical tale about a flight to the moon and the Hussite wars of the 15th century. He also wrote one powerful but somber verismo work: Jenufa, the story of a village girl made pregnant by the local womanizer, whose formidable foster mother kills her baby...
...multiple personality, like others, is a desperate attempt to handle conflicting emotions by parceling them out to different "people" and is associated with a severely warped childhood. The illegitimate son of two Florida entertainers, Milligan was three when his father committed suicide. His stepfather physically abused his mother and sodomized young Milligan, threatening to bury him alive if he told. As a teen-ager in Ohio, Milligan fell into trances and walked the streets in a daze. He was incarcerated twice, once for rape, once for robbery, and failed at every...
...parents' lives were unimaginably cruel. Plowing by hand, laboring in the fields from dawn until dusk, his father died of a heart attack in his early 30s. when Crews was not quite two. Not long afterward, his mother married his father's older brother Pascal. The result was catastrophic. Pascal drank, the couple quarreled, and after he discharged his shotgun six inches above his wife's head, she fled with her children to Jacksonville. A few months later, she returned to work the farm herself...