Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bare ruined choirs of America's industrial heartland are now being gingerly reclaimed by singles bars and furniture boutiques, Kathy Peterson, 33, is manager of an antique-brass shop. She spent a lot of time this fall trying to resolve her tumbled responses to Ferraro. Married, a mother and stepmother, she is "not a strong women's libber." She doesn't think people should vote for Ferraro just because she is a woman. Last week, after the candidate's visit, she said, "I've made up my mind. My husband said she didn...
...when she was arrested last week was the true identity of the woman behind the scenes. A professional madam at night, Devin by day was Sydney Biddle Barrows, of the New Jersey Biddies, one of the country's oldest and most distinguished families, say police. She and her mother are listed in the Social Register with the notation "Myf," the elite code for descendants of Mayflower Pilgrims...
...accusations multiplied until the sexual-abuse scandal in Jordan, Minn. (pop. 2,663), gripped the entire community. After a mother told police last year that her teen-age daughter had been abused by a neighbor, 24 adults were charged with molesting 37 children, including their own. The children provided graphic testimony, and James Rud, 26, a convicted child molester, described a perverted version of hide-and-seek in which, he said, the adults would search out the children and spend five or ten minutes sexually molesting each...
...members opened fire on youths arriving at a party. Five people were murdered in a matter of seconds. Still another shooting last Thursday brought the week's total to ten. The majority of the week's victims were innocent bystanders. Among them: a Hughes Aircraft worker and mother who sang in her church choir...
...young man's life. One day in a black shantytown near Johannesburg, South Africa, Primary Schoolteacher Desmond Mpilo Tutu saw a white man respectfully tip his hat to a black woman. Tutu had never seen a white make such a gesture. The woman was Tutu's mother; the white was the Rev. Trevor Huddleston, now an Anglican bishop. The priest subsequently befriended the young black, and after Tutu was hospitalized in 1953 for tuberculosis, Huddleston visited him daily for 20 months. Tutu, profoundly impressed, followed his white friend into the clergy, rising rapidly in the Anglican Church...