Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John F. Kennedy + International Airport, a crate of bonsai trees en route from the Republic of China to Memphis has been pried open. In a nearby room rests a long cardboard box containing cut flowers from the Netherlands. Thousands of similar parcels pass through J.F.K. daily. On some holidays -- Mother's Day, for example -- one chartered plane may discharge 15,000 cartons of blooms and foliage. But the shipments sometimes hold more than flowers. They can be the hideaway for exotic insects...
...northeast Washington neighborhood last week, residents protested a plan by Mother Teresa and the Roman Catholic archdiocese to open a hospice in the area for AIDS patients. In Chicago, a charter-bus driver ejected 35 healthy members and friends of an AIDS fund-raising group last week, merely because of their connection with AIDS patients. "Here in Chicago, AIDS is still seen as a gay issue," one group member said. "I see a lot of hysteria." In California, a group calling itself PANIC (Prevent AIDS Now Initiative Committee) has placed a proposition on the November ballot giving health officials...
...hear it from your mother. You hear it from your mate. But why criticize anything? And, in particular, why criticize...
When Henry Rosovsky was named dean in 1973, his mother said, "When they go to people like you, things must be pretty bad," he recalled. Rosovsky who served until 1984 said that he believed departments should seek to hire stars in their fields...
Alexander von Auersperg and his sister, Annie-Laurie "Ala" von Auersperg Kneissl, Mrs. von Bulow's children by a previous marriage, have fought von Bulow's efforts to reinstate Cosima von Bulow's claim to her share of the $50 million estate left by Mrs. von Bulow's mother, the late Annie Laurie Crawford Aitken...