Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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REMEMBER HOW YOUR MOTHER used to invade the sanctity of your bedroom to tell you that the garbage had to be taken out, the leaves had to be raked, the dog walked and the dishes washed? Sure you remember. You hated...
...Nehru-style jacket and the flowing trousers that Indians call pyjamas, a confident and congenial Gandhi met for one hour with TIME Diplomatic Correspondent William Stewart and New Delhi Bureau Chief Ross H. Munro. In an oak-paneled office graced by portraits of his grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru and his mother, the Prime Minister discussed Pakistan's nuclear program, relations with the U.S. and his agenda for India's pressing internal problems. Excerpts...
...which he won a Tony Award and an Oscar, almost obscured his achievements as a movie performer, photographer and TV director; after a two- year battle with cancer; in New York City. He was born Taidje Khan on Sakhalin Island, off the coast of Siberia, to a Rumanian Gypsy mother and a Swiss-Mongolian father. Reared in Peking and Paris, he was a cabaret singer and circus acrobat before becoming an actor, arriving in the U.S. in 1941 and making his Broadway debut in the 1946 Lute Song. He brought his bald-pated, brooding persona to three dozen films, most...
...reading at age two (before he could talk), at four scored 159 on an IQ test (140 is generally considered genius level), also at four taught his chemical engineer father BASIC computer language (are you keeping up with all this?) and finished high school at eight. His mother, who started reading to him during the pregnancy, devotes herself full time to his education, driving him to university and then walking him across the street. David reports he gets along fine with others in his class. "I have friends of all ages," he explains, "but the ones I ride bikes with...
Part of the claim is intended to cover the continued medical expenses of the three survivors. Two of the infants still suffer from a lung ailment that requires the continuous administration of oxygen at home, and their mother says she cannot resume work as a high school English teacher because of the time required to care for her children...