Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wednesday he made preliminary efforts to arrange for the immigration to Israel of his mother Ida Milgrom, 77, and his brother Leonid, 39, a request that Soviet authorities have implied would be fulfilled within a few weeks. Even though she was not able to see her younger son before his sudden departure, Ida Milgrom, who like her daughter-in-law had fought hard for Anatoli's release, was overwhelmed by the good news. Leonid was at her side. "We'll be celebrating with champagne and vodka tonight, even though they aren't so easy to find anymore," he said, referring...
...moved, without explanation, to the camp hospital, where he was given vitamin injections and medicine for his heart. Once before, in 1984, he was transferred to the same hospital, provided with proper medical treatment, strengthened with a good diet, and then taken to visit his mother and brother. Again this time, as he gained weight from a diet that included meat and even butter, he assumed that he was being fattened up for another visit...
...Twenty-seven home dates into this season, the six-year- old, third-place Dallas Mavericks are averaging 16,694 customers, shading the champion Los Angeles Lakers (16,571) as the biggest draw in the N.B.A. The Mavs are the hobby of a Stetsoned millionaire named Donald Carter, 52, whose mother made their money in living-room gewgaws, and whose long-standing affection for the sport is suggested by a wallet photo he carries of his wife wearing No. 37 on her old school pinafore. The marketer of the franchise is Norm Sonju, who learned...
Iacocca, on the other hand, has promoted what he calls an "ethnic Williamsburg" concept in the restoration. His toughness softens as he describes his vision of having visitors "see exactly what your mother or father or grandparents saw. You would walk into the Great Hall and meditate and pray, because it is like a church--it is just beautiful." There would be exhibits explaining why Ellis had become "an island of tears," and "you could punch a computer and find out what boats your parents came on." Park Service officials in turn dismissed this as "an ethnic Disneyland...
Simon's sequel, A Wider World, begins on the day of her elementary-school graduation, a rite of passage that, she remembers tartly, called for "light rejoicing." Mother buys her a rose; Father gives her the withering news that she can go to high school for only one year of secretarial courses. The 13- year-old's response introduces the principal motif of the book, if not the dominant theme of her life: "Here I stand, hobbled in a sack of doom, determined to tear out of it, knowing that I will...