Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like his flying partner Arango, Russell also learned his skills at a young age--from his father, a commerical pilot, and his mother, a flight attendant. He recalls. "Most kids would go fishing, but my dad and I would talk airplanes. We'd go down to the airport and he'd show me the control rooms and weather maps...
...endless quarrels. The rakish Prince Philip, disdainful of life in Buckingham Palace. His imperturbable wife, Queen Elizabeth II. The dour Princess Anne, lining up a TV interview to pay for her plane ticket to Australia. The family rogue, Prince Andrew, smuggling porn actresses into the palace when his mother leaves on holiday. Prince Edward, ever dumb and awkward...
...their fans around the world, the British Royal Family seems wholly unworthy of the decorum and severity that surrounds its every public move. People simply adore this bunch of misfits, and it's hilarious to watch crowds cheer the Queen's tiny wave, the Queen Mother's vacant smile, and Prince Charles' shyness as the troupe arrives at Ascot tin open carriages each summer...
Then there arrived the victim's mother. Still in curlers and carrying a forgotten hot fudge sundae, she approached the two officers, wailing. "Please tell me it ain't him, please tell me it ain't him," again and again at the top of her lungs. Gently putting her sundae on the trunk of the cruiser, O'Hara led her away, quietly trying to console...
Blithely running down innumerable hills, it becomes awfully tempting to sprint at a maniacal pace. I have never been good at overcoming temptation. So I ignored all the pre-marathon promises I had made to my ever-worriful mother not too go out too fast...