Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Says Kevin Murphy, 36, an advertising copy editor who lives with his wife Barbara in Tamarac, Fla.: "I get a raise, and for a couple of months things seem more comfortable. Then inflation catches up with me. It's a treadmill." In Parma, Ohio, Lynda Smith, 37, a mother of two, agrees. The wife of an engineer for Ameritech, a regional phone company, she drives 30 miles round trip to stock up on canned goods at a discount grocery store. Says she: "Whenever my husband gets a raise, utilities, taxes or something else goes...
...foregoing quotation is a complete paragraph in the report (copyrighted by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate and the interviewer) of a thoroughly friendly interview of candidate Reagan by freelance journalist Angela Fox Dixon, whose mother was Reagan's drama coach at the Warner Brothers studio. (The report was reprinted in The Washington Post on page E5 on July...
...last year's readings, which sold 20,000 copies. Although Ng says they were "basically appreciative" of the new inclusive approach in speaking of God, Ringe admits that many worshipers simply ignored some new wordings. The practice most controversial to worshipers seems to be the addition of "and Mother" whenever a reference to God the Father is unavoidable. One new example in John 15 ("the Spirit of truth who proceeds from [God] the Father [and Mother]" seems to add a heretical Fourth Person to the Trinity. The third and final selection of readings, due a year hence, will include...
...bars and in the 1930s of Europe's nightspots, then enjoyed a second successful singing career in her 80s; in New York City. She performed with Jazz Age greats like Louis Armstrong, and wrote her own numbers, including Down Hearted Blues, made famous by Bessie Smith. After her mother's death in 1954, she abruptly stopped singing and became a practical nurse until forced to retire by hospital administrators who thought she was 70; she was 82. Rediscovered then at a party, she performed to capacity audiences at a New York City cafe until last summer...
...small staff are just out of lycee and brimming with ideas; others are friends of long standing; none is over 32. Gaultier may be an iconoclast, but he has a deep and sometimes surprising respect for other designers. One would expect him to "adore" Vivienne Westwood, the earth mother of punk fashion. But Gaultier also "adores" Giorgio Armani and Jean Muir, and speaks with respect of the old master Yves Saint Laurent. He spends about 85% of his time working, and rides the Metro both to commute and to store up ideas...