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Word: motheral (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Jimmy Carter was running for President in 1976, proclaiming his honesty, Billy said, "I'm the only Carter who'll never lie to you." Another time he said, "My mother joined the Peace Corps when she was 70, my sister Gloria is a motorcycle racer, my other sister Ruth is a Holy Roller preacher, and my brother thinks he's going to be President of the United States. I'm really the only normal one in the family." Billy worked hard for Jimmy's election, but afterward the hucksters in Plains appalled him. "Maybe we should just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wry Clown Billy Carter, 1937-1988 | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

...Brawleys immediately denounced the story, repeating their claims that a racist system of justice is stacked against them. "I am not a liar, and I am not crazy," said Tawana at a packed press conference held in New Jersey because her mother is on the run from New York State authorities for refusing to testify before the grand jury. After the full report is officially released in a few weeks, New York attorney general Robert Abrams will probably drop the case, leaving the Brawley imbroglio to be sorted out where it has played best: in the court of public opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Tearing Apart Tawana's Tale | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

...drugs she took -- as many as 20 different kinds. She consumed them compulsively, seeking help from at least three different doctors to keep the medicine chest stocked, believing that they would all help her win. She believed as well that the drugs were nothing to worry about. When her mother questioned her about them, Dressel replied, "These are all harmless drugs. All athletes take them. It's really nothing special." No single drug she took was blamed for her death, but it is worth noting that one of the drugs she reportedly received was Stromba -- a trade name for stanozolol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heptathlete Birgit Dressel : An Athlete Dying Young | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

...when he was a Congressman. He has also talked about child care and has proposed a $2.2 billion package that would provide low-income families with a $1,000-per-child tax credit. Such a tax credit, however, can hardly accomplish what it is designed to do: allow a mother to pay for day care or permit her to stay home with her children. Bush recently underwent a campaign conversion and said he would support raising the minimum wage (as long as it was coupled with a subminimum as a "youth training" wage). He must have done the multiplication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Underclass: Breaking the Cycle | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

From the British point of view, the American revolutionaries were ingrates. Had not the mother country endowed her colonists with a splendid heritage? Did she not, at considerable cost, literally save their scalps from the French and their Iroquois allies during the Seven Years' War? The litany of disappointment went on, driven by royal self-righteousness and a scarcely concealed craving to punish the upstarts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The American Dream, and Where It All Started | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

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