Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...circular saws at Sears next year," says Don Capone, a physicist at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. Concurs Nobel Laureate Robert Schrieffer, who shared the 1972 prize for developing a theory of how superconductors work: "It's time for everyone to catch their breath and try to understand what Mother Nature has presented...
Archer's case was bolstered by the testimony and daily presence in court of his attractive wife Mary, 42, a former chemistry professor at Cambridge University and the mother of their two teenage sons. The notion of her husband, a former Oxford University track star, buying the services of a hooker was "preposterous," she said, because "anyone who knows Jeffrey would know that, far from him accosting a prostitute, if one approached him, he would run several miles." Besides, she added, she and her husband "lead a full life...
...film begins with Ritchie in love with a Hispanic girl named Rosie, who sleeps with Bob soon after his return. Bob gives his mother a large wad of money, saying that it is time to leave the labor camp for the city. The family departs, with Rosie...
Five years ago, in his comeback race for Governor, Dukakis had to be coaxed into talking at all about his father Panos, who died in 1979, and his mother Euterpe. Now he revels in it. "Each of my parents is an American success story," Dukakis boasts in his standard stump speech. "My father, eight years after he came to this country as a 15-year-old Greek immigrant, was entering medical school . . . My mother was the first Greek girl ever to go beyond high school in Haverhill, Mass...
...warm, emotional and a bit extravagant. They raised three children: John Dukakis, 29, Kitty's son from her first marriage; Andrea, 21, who just graduated from Princeton; and Kara. John, now running the Dukakis campaign in the South, sees a gradual softening in his father's demeanor: "My mother has really helped him to express that it's not an invasion of privacy to show people that he cares for them...