Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...changing style of politics. "I think they try to make it neighborhood to neighborhood, but he neighborhoods have changed. The tenement districts of Charlestown, East Boston and South Boston are now condominiums. How can it be the same if there's people moving in where your father or mother paid $12 a month rent for a cold water flat and sent their kids to local school...
...these narrow streets: Paul Revere's house in North Square is just doors away from a mouthwatering Italian restaurant. A bit further down the street stands the one-time home of "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, a powerful Boston political boss almost a century ago, and birthplace of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (mother of John, Robert, and Edward). Across the street is the site of Gov. Thomas Hutchinson's house, where angry colonists protested...
...that same feeling an hour later as I wandered around the Copps Hill Burying Ground, reading the gravestones of people named "Dorcas" and "Mehetabel." A bunch of squealing children disturbed the peace, and their mother wavered helplessly behind them, calling, "Wait. I said to wait." But to no avail. The children skipped merrily on, chanting "Don't walk on the grass. Don't walk on the grass...
...sprinter out of Olympic Village, the cockpit of his glory, and checked him into a Seoul hotel under an ignominious pseudonym. There, at 3:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Carol Anne Letheren, chef de mission of the Canadian delegation, stripped Johnson of the medal he had already given to his mother. "He was in a state of shock," said Letheren. "He still did not comprehend the situation." A few hours later he was bound for New York, a runner who had stumbled into a future stained with disgrace...
...Johnson was not talking. Before leaving Seoul, he denied knowingly taking steroids. On the flight back he wept, and when he finally arrived in Canada, he retreated to his mother's suburban Toronto home, where he lives. The well-built edifice of endorsements that had been erected for him collapsed overnight; he stands to lose an estimated $8.2 million. The only light in his personal tunnel, and a lurid one at that, came when Canadian and American football teams announced their interest in his services. The Canadian government promised an inquiry. Nothing less, it seemed, would explain the story...