Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...YOUR COAT and let's go," the mother told her young daughter...
...blackjack tables. The terror did not end on the mezzanine. Smoke poured out of the lower floors and wrapped the 22-story building in a dense cloak. On the twelfth floor, Nancy Brensson, 12, of Cresskill, N.J., was watching a rerun of The Carol Burnett Show while her mother was taking a shower. "Suddenly the room went dark," she said. "I looked out and saw this cloud. My father said that it was probably rain. But he opened the balcony door, and smoke rushed...
Setting out to restore the "special relationship" between Britain and the U.S., Macmillan liked to remind everyone that his mother was an American. He established a close rapport with President Eisenhower and later with President John F. Kennedy, who called him frequently during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. "I was a sort of son to Ike," Macmillan explained, "and it was the other way round with Kennedy...
...This sort of thing raises the ire of many environmentalists. The January issue of Mother Jones scolds Rockwell for making Adams into an "arms peddler." Carl Pope, political director of the Sierra Club, calls Rockwell's use of the Adams photographs the "ultimate in cynicism." But Rockwell paid a substantial fee to the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust for permission to use the photos. Contends Trustee John Schaefer: "Adams was a patriot. He believed in a strong defense...
...Sunday morning, Nov. 10, Aquino went to the Manila Memorial Park cemetery to attend a Mass for dead family members, as she had done on the tenth day of every month since her mother died. In the course of lunch afterward with the celebrant, Monsignor Orlando Panlican, she repeated the critical, unanswered question: Could the opposition, if it put up a common candidate, beat Marcos...