Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about a 15-year-old friend of his who stood up in front of a crowd of students and spoke against the Soviet invasion. Ataullah's friend was shot before he could finish. The boy's body was then carried to his home, where, Ataullah recounted, his friend's mother reacted by saying that "We should all die like this...
Quoting her mother, Alva R. Myrdal, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Bok told the group assembled for the Second Annual Erik Erikson Lecture that "it is not worthy of human beings to give...
That sentence sums up most of Schwarzenegger's life: intense activity combined with relaxation. He was born in Austria, in the city of Graz. His father was a policeman, his mother a hausfrau, and they instilled in him a strong ambition. By the time he was 15, he had decided he wanted to be a body builder, and hung pictures of a former Mr. Universe all around his room for inspiration. That former Mr. U., South African Reg Park, not only had muscles but money, and young Arnold wanted both. He created himself, pumping iron three or four hours...
...Dorns have left Europe (perhaps Germany in the early '30s) to establish a manufacturing business in London. They prosper, even though the elder Dorn dies prematurely and leaves Wife Sofka to turn Alfred, Frederick, Mimi and Betty into proper gentlemen and ladies. But there is only so much a mother can do. Alfred is a somber bibliophile destined to run the business and refute the opening line of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice ("It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife"). Frederick seems...
Following the execution, Mamike Moloise, 53, complained bitterly that she had been denied the opportunity to visit her son on the day of his death. "I begged," said the bereaved mother, who waited outside the prison gates accompanied by, among others, Winnie Mandela, wife of jailed A.N.C. Leader Nelson Mandela. "I said, 'It's the last time. That's my son.' This government is cruel. It is really, really cruel." Mrs. Moloise was later permitted to see her son's unopened coffin, but his body will remain the property of the state and will be buried inside the prison...