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Word: motheral (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...murders were carefully and diabolically plotted. By the time the bullet- riddled bodies of John List's mother, wife and three children were discovered in Westfield, N.J., in December 1971, the quiet accountant had been missing for nearly a month. It took authorities 18 years to catch up with him, and then only through a TV crime show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: After 18 Years, a Bust | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

Chamorro presides over her fractured family with the same aplomb. At family gatherings, politics are checked at the door. Says Carlos Fernando: "We've * learned not to talk about our political beliefs. No one's opinion is going to be changed at the dinner table." His mother has come to terms with her family's fate: "They're all adults. They go their way, and I've gone mine. I am Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, and I don't have to ask anyone's opinion of anything. Period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIOLETA CHAMORRO: Don't Call Her Comrade | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

Pauley, an anchor on NBC's "Today Show" and mother of three, spoke before approximately 5000 people, listening under a sea of umbrellas in Tercentenary Theater Striking a tone alternating between folksiness and cynicism, Pauley played off her celebrity status to highlight the importance of children and family...

Author: By Kelly A. E. mason, | Title: Pauley Addresses Graduates | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...comes from a family of solemnity and seriousness," Riesman says, noting that Bok's mother was a friend of writers W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. "He grew up in an environment of high seriousness, and he maintains that...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: The 'Rationalist Philosopher' at Harvard's Head | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...narrates, in a straight-forwardbut dramatic tone, "I was a victim of the New YorkCity public schools." Growing up in theBedford-Stuyvestant section of Brooklyn, Watsonwas the son of "very hard-working blue-collarworkers." His mother worked in a Kosher bakery,his father was a truck driver...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Voicing Controversial Views | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

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