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Word: mother (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five dollars that Noam Chomsky takes better pictures than Jeanne Theoharis' [91] mother, Nancy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 11/4/1989 | See Source »

...begin with, he's never given me a set of mental blocks for my birthday. He doesn't administer electroshock therapy when I'm naughty. And I don't have a driving desire to marry my mother...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Daddy Dearest | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

...take these questions seriously. No matter how much psychiatric training my father may have, no matter how many times he rereads Freud, he will never learn to instill me with guilt like my mother can. Some things are beyond the realm of science...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Daddy Dearest | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

Arriving fire fighters finally managed to pry Cathy loose. Then doctors who had rushed to the scene from Oakland hospitals made a tough decision. "The mother is in the way, O.K.?" said intern Daniel Allen. "We're going to take a chain saw through the body to get to him." Even after that macabre operation, the boy was still trapped. Only when trauma surgeon James Betts amputated his right leg could Julio be freed. "He was moving and crying out," Betts explained later. "We couldn't just leave him there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earthquake | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...quake, and that is enough reason to worry. Likely candidates for significant quakes in Northern California include not only Berkeley and Oakland but also the Silicon Valley. The Los Angeles Basin, for its part, has experienced an increase in small earthquakes, which many seismologists find alarming. The message from Mother Nature seems unmistakable: Be prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Waiting for the Big One | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

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