Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to take an indefinite rest and let Mother Nature do the healing," the injury-riddled Samuelson said after finishing ninth in 2:37:51. "It could be one year or five years...
Moving along. If ever you get the chance to attend one of Melodye Stewart's workshops on African contributions to civilization, go. After 14 years as a corporate secretary, this dynamic mother of one returned to school and developed the courses in which she teaches that not all great things came from European minds. And keep an eye out for books by Luke Pontifell. He does not write them but prints them, beautifully, by hand. Last year his Thornwillow Press published Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s J.F.K. Remembered, and in July he will bring out a book by Walter Cronkite...
Ideologically correct couples have ways of working things out. When Skye Kerr married Deane Rynerson, they manufactured a new name: Rykerson. Some couples give the father's surname to daughters and the mother's surname to sons. For their firstborn, Pierce Barker and Carol Frost of Friendship, Md., did not bother with family at all, nor were they intimidated by the perils of hyphenating. They gave the child the surname Roth-Tubman, after the author Philip Roth and the 19th century abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Similarly, in Newton, Mass., Harry Finkelstein and Jamie Kelem junked their surnames and became the Keshets...
...paychecks and to assist a substitute teacher with lesson plans. Many San Diegans, angered by the way Rogers was treated, accused the school of gross ingratitude and cowardice. Others argued that Rogers should stay away for the safety of the students. Said Jean Andrews, a political consultant and the mother of one of Rogers' former pupils: "I don't think children's bodies are the appropriate weapons to be used on a frontline offensive against terrorist attacks...
Ferdinand would not be the first Marcos to be treated specially after death. His mother Josefa, who died last May at 95, was embalmed and remains on public display in her home village awaiting the Marcoses' return, when she too will be interred...