Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this Mother's Day weekend, the Harvard heavyweight crew squad took these words to heart, beating previously-undefeated Northeastern in choppy waters on the Charles River Saturday morning. The victory followed the crew's first defeat of the season last weekend, also in rough conditions down in Annapolis...
...also use crack profits to help their struggling families -- and the extra cash that appears on the kitchen table can persuade parents to look the other way while their children are heading into trouble. Denise Robinson, founder of the Detroit community-action group Saving Our Kids, even recalls a mother who dissuaded her son from returning to high school. "He had been a good student. He had good grades," says Robinson. "((But)) he was making $600 a week dealing crack. So his mother wanted him to keep dealing." The incentive is powerful: "The kids say, 'We don't have...
Parents who are not bought off can be intimidated. A Washington-area woman called her minister for help when she discovered $40,000 and two semiautomatic weapons under her son's bed. In New York City, a recovering drug addict intervened when his mother found 400 crack vials in her younger son's coat pockets: "I told her if she throwed it away, she'd find her son dead...
...situation came to a head when a menacing dealer forced his way into Eric's mother's home and demanded that she pay him the $200 her son owed him. Shortly thereafter, Eric entered a rehabilitation program called Pride. After four months, he emerged shaken but sober. He has dropped all his crack-smoking friends but worries about temptation. "Coke is still all around me," he says...
Smith, whose mother appeared in the American Repertory Theater's production of Uncle Vanya, fell from the stairway to a concrete basement floor during a film-screening of the play last month. The wide staircase railing, which has alarmed employees at the center since it was built in 1963 and was noted as a hazard by a state building inspector in 1985, featured wide gaps between its horizontal bars that allowed the small child to slip through...