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Word: mother (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mother says she didn't know which was more embarrassing: telling Federal Express she was sending a mangled piece of cloth to her 18-year-old son at Harvard, or insuring...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Bring Back My Blankie | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

According to a statement filed at an earlier hearing by Parr, "Suzanne D. Moran threatened to kill her grandson if he told anyone about the assaults." That document also says that she told her grandson she would kill his mother and father if he told anyone about the alleged incidents...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Moran Waives Right To be Tried by Jury | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

...trouble with this homogenized version of history is that the battles fought during the revolution still resist accommodation 200 years later. Twentieth century French historiography has been dominated by a Marxist school that celebrated the French Revolution and its class struggles as the mother of the Bolshevik Revolution. Regicide was the only way to crush the power of the privileged, and the Terror, like Stalin's purges, was a necessary transition to an eventual dictatorship of the proletariat. Many French have thought of themselves as different from other Europeans because they broke so violently with their past and started fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite? | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...Atlanta a mother beats her three children -- ages twelve, ten and eight -- with a rolling pin until they are black and blue. In Richmond a man forces his nephew to stand at attention and circles the boy while spitting on him. During a parent-teacher conference in Detroit, a woman grabs her twelve-year- old son, hits him in the face until he bleeds, then punches him in the ribs and walks out of the room. What did these children do to earn such treatment? They brought home report cards with poor grades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Report Cards Can Hurt You | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...themselves at perpetual high risk. I'm Your Girl, the record's midpoint and one of its high points, sounds at first like another improbably beguiling Snow song about love gone bad. I'm Your Girl is a love song, all right, but it is about Snow's mother Lili, who died of cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Throwing In the Crying Towel | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

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