Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...understand what would make her mother do this," said LaLonde in the interview...
Even more surprising to the 1980s sensibility is the fact that Maria Halpin remained obscure during the public sensation and later. Incredible. Had she lived in today's tattletale milieu, the mother of little Oscar Folsom Cleveland would have bounced from magazine covers right into the hot seats of Donahue and Nightline. Agents would have hatched deals for books, movies, interviews, docudramas and maybe a stint of modeling to launch a new line of lingerie called Grover's Corners...
...soft-spoken sexologist is more reluctant to discuss the details of her splintered childhood. Hite was born Shirley Diana Gregory in 1942 in St. Joseph, Mo. Her father Paul Gregory, a serviceman and flight controller, and her mother divorced shortly after the end of World War II. Her mother later married Raymond Hite, a truck driver, who legally adopted her. After 2 1/2 years that marriage dissolved. Throughout the turmoil, Shere (short for Shirley) lived on and off with her grandparents, who, after a 30-year marriage, also divorced. Her grandfather, Alexander Hurt, acted as a surrogate father, although Shere...
Liddy Dole is neither mother nor housekeeper. She is a power broker who happens to have a North Carolina accent, which undoubtedly will deepen as the campaign wears on and she fields policy questions about nuclear arms, budgets, trade balances, airline safety. Strategic issues will not be escaped as they were by Nancy Reagan, who once joked that she had planned to discuss nuclear disarmament with her husband but decided instead to clean out his sock drawer. Liddy Dole will be expected to know -- and she will...
Snaking down from a Himalayan ice cave to the Bay of Bengal, the 1,560-mile- long river is called Ganga Ma (Mother Ganges), the holiest of all Hindu streams. Every pious Hindu wishes to be cremated on the Ganges' banks and to bequeath his ashes to her waters...