Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...changed over the past decade. My mother says I've developed more "Yankee-land" characteristics, breaking out of my cloistered Southern background and becoming a city...
After a few days in Tennessee, my mother and I took the final leg of the journey 10 years in the making. I was driving the car down Route 64 toward the Tennessee border, but missed the first turn into Corinth. But the back roads were somewhere in my memory, and I found myself near the public library...
...Cosby learned that he could make people like him, and get his way, by making them laugh. He would con his mother out of a cookie by reprising a humorous radio show, and amuse his brothers by cooking breakfast with imaginative dashes of food coloring: purple waffles, green scrambled eggs. At school he would charm the teachers and tell tall tales. An early report card said, "William should become either a lawyer or an actor because he lies so well." Cosby starred in class plays and displayed both a talent for mimicry and a prodigious memory. He scored high...
...this politician isn't just campaigning, he is introducing money to the state before the election), and the air conditioning was failing left and right. Jackets went first, then neckties. We made a car- to-car inspection in an effort not to melt, and were reminded of our Southern mother's line, i.e., Southern women don't sweat, they glow...
Allman, a Florida-born journalist who was educated at Harvard and Oxford, offers the livelier version of the city's emergence from alligator swamp to Casablanca, U.S.A. His candidate for founding mother is Julia Tuttle, the independent wife of a Cleveland industrialist who persuaded Henry Flagler to extend his Florida East Coast Railway to the shores of Biscayne Bay, where Tuttle had inherited land from her father. The area promised freedom from the occasional winter frosts that inconvenienced rich vacationers 70 miles north at Palm Beach...