Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...childbirth. A baby can be infected with AIDS in the womb or during birth, probably from the mother's blood. The number of cases so far is very small, about 130 (some 180 children in the U.S. have the disease), but unhappily it is likely to increase. More parents are sure to be exposed to the virus, and a possibly large percentage, who for some unknown reason never develop symptoms, can unwittingly pass the virus to their children. (Both women and men who are not victims of AIDS can be carriers...
...time it seems the city has gone crazy: mobs of mothers flail at policemen, neighbors battle neighbors, young vandals hurl epithets and rocks and sometimes fire bombs. Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity, who issues the order to integrate, is harassed by death threats. Mayor Kevin White watches his political standing disintegrate on the eve of his intended run for the presidency. Boston Globe Editor Thomas Winship sees his employees threatened, even shot at, as the paper goes after the story. Louise Day Hicks, the city council member who became the earth mother of the antibusing forces, stands by helplessly...
...censorship section of the Liverpool post office, J.C. Silber listens to the "majestic tolling" of church bells and is "glad to get away from it all." Understandably: Silber is a German spy who will retain his cover long enough to return home. In Berlin, Albert Einstein writes to his mother, "Only now do I begin to feel at ease. The defeat has worked wonders...
...hated Harvard and MIT students because they take our houses," Rose said during lunch near the projects. "Then somebody said, 'Let's get students working with the neighborhood,'" said the mother of two Harvard students, nothing that many local children lack things like sports and computer instruction...
...busboys, which means that 45 diners are served by at least 30 employees. Among them is his slender, blond wife Janine, who oversees the checks. She also cooks dinner at home around 6:30, relying on bourgeois fare like gigot with flageolets. Robuchon loves it, as he did his mother's cooking back in his native Poitiers. Says he: "Such food is prepared with maternal love, and it cannot be judged by ordinary standards...