Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...playing field. While trying to secure a starter's place on the football team, he played one quarter with a fractured arm. Eventually he became the team's captain and won letters in three other sports. But although he grew up affluent, Darman also felt the influence of his mother Eleanor, a liberal involved in medical social service. Later Darman mused that he "bumbled" into government work as a means of bridging his father's and mother's impulses...
...nonprofit housing developers. On low-cost land the bricklayers acquired from the city, they are building modestly priced homes that first-timers buy with mortgages subsidized by the state Home Ownership Opportunity Program. Eleanor Santosuosso, 45, will soon move -- along with her husband, three sons and her mother, 75 -- into a four-bedroom town house that the family won the right to buy for $97,000 in a lottery last year. Says she: "Even my mother says she has always dreamed of owning a home. She figured it was an impossible dream. Now it has come true...
Many of the women have a lifetime of experience to overcome. Rodgers' earliest childhood memory was watching her heroin-addict mother stick a needle in her arm. Until recently, Rodgers was lost in a haze of cocaine smoke and subsisted on leftovers pilfered from a fast-food restaurant. Now she sits in the Mandela House kitchen, which is rich with the smell of baking meat loaf...
Hvenegaard, now 14, was chosen to play Pelle from an audition against 4000 other young actors. Before the filming of Pelle, he had never acted before and was chosen to audition based on a photograph sent to the producers of the movie. Interestingly enough, his mother named him for the lead character of Nexo's novel while she was still pregnant...
...family has flown all over to see me run," Rainey says. "My mother especially has been wonderful. She's the biggest influence in my life...