Word: mother
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...bulldozer roared towards a car stuck in traffic, passersby managed to grab a five-month-old baby from inside the vehicle, seconds before the bulldozer slammed into the car, crushing the mother to death...
...ambiguity. Santiago Rondon, a "spiritual consultant" in La Pastora, one of the capital's oldest neighborhoods, describes the tradition as a windshield wiper swinging between good and not so good. "It goes this way and it goes that way," says Rondon. "One day the santos malandros help a desperate mother keep her child off drugs; the next day they help you score some cocaine. It's the duality of life, but that's the way real life functions." And there's always the danger, acknowledged by believers, that the malandro spirit can turn against someone seeking help...
...meat delivery truck and shared the bounty among his neighbors. "I was an errand boy," recalls Carlos Flores, 50. "He would steal, but he never killed. Today's malandro is mean - he will kill you for a pair of shoes. Ismael wasn't that way. He even helped my mother carry her grocery bags up the steep hill...
...television station, adding that he was celebrating in Paris with Betancourt's relatives. (Her ex-husband Fabrice Delloye and their two children, Lorenzo, 20, and Melanie, 22, live in Paris. Said Lorenzo upon hearing the news: "We have won a struggle for freedom. Now I'll see my mother. It's one of the greatest moments of my life...
...years I've been working here," the orderly told my wife, "no patient's strangulated hernia has failed to repair itself on the road to the hospital." Still, they had to finish the journey lest the ambulance's trip be considered in vain. My wife and her mother returned home late in the afternoon by taxi - a kind of follow-up treatment...