Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...underground concourse of shops and banks will soon be closed to anyone without special clearance. The State Department had also set up concrete barricades and sometimes screened visitors with metal detectors, but guards could not prevent a horrifying incident last summer when a 20-year-old man shot his mother to death, then took his own life just 100 yards from Secretary of State George Shultz's office. Since then Foggy Bottom has required more thorough personal searches, even for people carrying State Department passes...
...access to the money, he had to fulfill a number of complicated conditions that included presenting a specially numbered diplomatic passport to the banks and cutting deals with certain tribal chiefs. Outside funds were necessary to pay expenses incurred as Blay-Miezah wheeled and dealed to get to the mother lode...
...local banker related to the celebrated clan of brewers. After ringing the doorbell, three hooded men, brandishing guns, forced their way into the house and began ransacking it for valuables. Then they started to make off with Guinness's daughter Gillian, 23, before acceding to the request of her mother Jennifer that they take her instead. As the hoods left, they demanded a $2.6 million ransom...
Historical Harvard-Wellesley ties sometimes beget new ones. "My parents met 25 years ago because my mother went to Wellesley and my father went to Harvard. I was curious so I thought I'd give it a shot," Vinton says. Did he succeed? "I went to a party and met a girl," he says...
Annette had anorexia nervosa in high school. At one point she weighed 97 pounds. She remembers that she couldn't admit that she had a problem, that she would look in the mirror and see herself as fat, even after losing 30 pounds. Her mother finally forced her to see a doctor...