Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about her son's death. She took her case to police in the town of White Bear Lake, a suburb of St. Paul. After a medical examiner and other experts scrutinized Dennis' autopsy report, they determined that the boy had been beaten to death. Late last month Dennis' adoptive mother, Lois Jurgens, 61, was indicted for killing the child...
...authorities did not investigate Dennis' death more thoroughly in 1965 remains a mystery, particularly since welfare workers subsequently had other children removed from the Jurgens household. Sherwood's explanation: "He was just an adopted illegitimate child, and it didn't matter. Nobody cared." Except a mother who kept his memory alive for 25 years...
Then it struck me. Eisenhower. Ike. The man won a war and then made it big in Washington. Maybe if I could add a little turf to Mother Russia a grateful Russian people would reward me with a top post, in addition to a hearty round of applause...
After Maria exhausts her dramatic repertoire--which includes mother, daughter, sister and husband to Dolores--she takes an asp in hand and reclines on a banquet table to die as Cleopatra...
Cambodian Witness begins, happily enough, with an easeful and exotic tour of prerevolutionary life in the capital of Phnom Penh, where May's father was a doctor. The narrator's earliest memory is of fighting with his siblings for the free toy inside his mother's packages of Tide, and the household he describes with clear-eyed affection is governed by all the rites of any middle-class family anywhere -- watching TV on weekends, anxiously awaiting exam results, going for picnics in the countryside. The narrator himself appears to have been a regular little scamp who delighted in gambling with...