Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hernan Siles Zuazo, routinely offer visitors coca tea. This is all quite legal because there is no law in Bolivia that prohibits either the cultivation or the marketing of coca. From the law-abiding family that earns $200 for a year's harvest of coca leaves to the young mother who receives $70 for carrying 40 lbs. of paste to a middleman, many Bolivians rely on coca to make the difference between subsistence and poverty. The government, saddled with an annual inflation rate that runs close to 3000% and a crippling foreign debt of almost $5 billion, is equally reluctant...
Jordan's ordeal began in September 1983, when Christine Brown, a mother of five, complained to police that Garbage Collector James Rud had molested her nine-year-old daughter. Rud, who had twice before been convicted of child molesting, soon implicated Brown and a group of other citizens in tales of orgies and sex games with children...
Could this classic mismatch have worked? Probably not. He was ungiving, and she was too taking. Tom seemed most content playing bridge, in bowler and brolly, with his wife's mother (Margaret Tyzack) and brother (David Haig). Viv imagined herself, with a mixture of impishness and foreboding, as the mistress of Dr. Crippen, the Edwardian wife murderer. Nice judgment, that: Viv is the picturesque victim slipping into madness, and Tom is the deadly St. Eliot, ( condemned because he took advantage of a sinner...
...sprout Fevvers." Years pass, and the child earns her innocent keep about the house by posing as Cupid in the drawing room, while commercial sex flourishes around her. Then comes puberty and the improbable onset of pinions. With the help of Lizzie, a retired whore and her adopted mother, Fevvers learns to extend her new appendages and fly. The one-eyed madam, who is nicknamed Nelson and wears the full uniform of an admiral of the fleet, witnesses the maiden voyage and exclaims: "Oh, my little one, I think you must be the pure child of the century that just...
Shortly after the picture begins, it depicts a brutal murder in the Philadelphia train station. The crime is witnessed by an Amish boy (Lukas Haas) who is traveling with his newly widowed mother (Kelly McGillis). Ford plays John Book, the Philadelphia detective who investigates, only to discover, with the boy's help, that the murder was committed by high members of his own department who have become involved in the drug trade. The hunter becomes the hunted, and Book, wounded, is forced to seek refuge with the boy and his mother among the Amish, the Pennsylvania Dutch folk who live...