Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman with the blank gaze of a zombie, covered with scars and bruises, her right leg bearing green ulcerations, and with several bones and joints misshapen from injuries that were never properly treated. Sitting up front every day, just behind Joel Steinberg, is Michelle Launders, 27, Lisa's natural mother. She was 19, pregnant and single in 1980 when, she says, she paid Steinberg $500 to arrange for her child to be adopted. Unbeknown to her, Steinberg kept the girl himself. Last week marked the first anniversary of her daughter's death. Staying away from the trial was impossible, says...
...DARK. A mother's nightmare -- the loss of her baby -- is compounded when she is wrongly convicted of murdering the infant. Meryl Streep is awesomely austere as the second victim in this tough-minded drama, based on a 1980 case in Australia...
...engineer, Norman grew up in Townsville, Australia, in subtropical Queensland. The prevailing Australian ethos held that "if you don't get hit, it isn't a sport," so Norman played Australian Rules football, essentially a riot with goalposts. When he was 16 his mother, a low-handicap amateur of Finnish descent, gave him two of Nicklaus' books. The boy read them and decided to give golf a try. It soon became clear that the late starter was a prodigy. Greg's father Merv recalls that he made "phenomenal progress," shooting par within 18 months of first picking up a golf...
Peggy Noonan, a former White House speechwriter and Reagan favorite, was driving with her mother from a supermarket in suburban Virginia when she heard a radio sound bite of Bush's "I'm one of you" quote. She felt her stomach sink. She called Fuller, who told her to be on Air Force Two the next afternoon for Bush's return to New Hampshire. Sitting next to Bush on the plane, she tried to make sense of what he was trying to say about himself. His hands fluttered near his chest, as if seeking his heart, and he said softly...
When Mike and Kitty came calling at Gracie Mansion one night a week before the primary, Koch served his favorite chocolate-chip cookies -- the same ones, he told them, that he had pressed on Mother Teresa. Dukakis talked with the mayor for 40 minutes. Koch was polite but distant. He asked about Jackson, and Dukakis responded with the usual boiler plate about disagreeing with Jackson on some issues but treating him with respect. Koch was not pleased. Only a week earlier Koch had, with his grating candor, said any Jew would be "crazy" to vote for Jackson. Just before...