Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world's largest democracy and handle the present situation in India. When Indira Gandhi entered politics, she lacked experience, yet she emerged as a good leader. India is a country in shock and anger, but Rajiv Gandhi can lead India in unity and peace, perhaps better than his mother...
Once the fires died down, the survivors returned to sift through the ruins. Raúl Peña Duarte, 44, stared numbly at the rubble of a three-room house that had sheltered him, his wife, four children from ten to 16, his mother-in-law and her sister. "All my family died there," he said. "I had gone to work. They were all asleep. A piece of one of the tanks went through there and then everything burned. I think I will leave here. What's left here...
That same ideal, despite its departure from ideology, has been stated more and more openly by officials in Peking since the reforms. They are also down-playing another Communist tenet, central control of factories. "In the past, we used to be a mother-in-law, and we relied on 'patriarchal dignity' to direct enterprises," says Deputy Premier Tian Jiyun. "Now we must get off our high horse and become just a simple 'attendant...
...soil is said to have belonged to one of Hannibal's elephants. The novel's hero, Turi Guiliano, is a Latin Robin Hood who can recite the Song of Roland and the basic guerrilla manual with matching ease. When he is not slipping into Montelepre for his mother's cooking and the attractions of a young widow, Turi muses under starry skies: "He no longer doubted that he had some magnificent destiny before him. He shared the magic of those medieval heroes who could not die until they came to the end of their long story, until...
...reality of this writer's beginnings was none too efficacious. Cheever was born the son of a prosperous shoe-merchant and a strong minded Englishwoman, in Wollaston, Massachusetts, in 1912. Bad deals and the depression destroyed his father and left the family dependent on the mother's quaint foreign gift shop. Young John, whose successful older brother Fred had begun at Dartmouth, found himself associating with his embittered, self-pitying father, while his mother grew increasingly distant...