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Word: motheral (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Smith, former president of the men's club, and his wife Ann looked in on the bar. "I don't drink," said Ann, "but I love it here. I have a cousin, the shyest person in the world. His mother says to him, 'You need a drink, Arthur.' One night he had one, and he was the life of the party, a darling. Some people are like that; they need a drink to be darlings." Here and there, old people were dancing in rickety pairs. A line of widows linked arms and did the "alleycat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: Have a Drink, for Heaven's Sake | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...women who ride the No. 55 bus home from work to the western suburbs had very clear visions of the worst things that could happen to Ferraro. "She could have a snit." "She could cry or giggle." "I'm afraid my husband might think she seems like his mother." A travel agent said, "I worry a lot about her feet. Where does she find comfort able shoes? That's not a problem men candidates have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Candidate Ourselves | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...never meet Larry (Bill Murray) Darrell's mother, but imagine she could tell the story. "I don't no what went wrong," we would here her say. "We sent Larry to a good college, we used to pick out good conservative clothes for him, and then World War I came. He wanted to run ambulances somewhere over in Europe with a friend of his. I figured at least he'd get some culture, but you don't stay at five star hotels and, well. His friend died over there and that may have been part of it, but he just...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Big Mouth Finds the Meaning of Life | 10/27/1984 | See Source »

According to Bernice Loss, curator of the Law School's Art Collection, the painting was a unsolicited loan from Washington artist Christa Kabitz-Sommer, mother of a 1983 Law School grad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Hand of Justice | 10/27/1984 | See Source »

...matador, appears. Escamillio also has fallen madly in love with the enchantress since meeting her before her flight from Seville. He challenges Don Jose to yield Carmen but Don Jose, determined to hold onto the last strands of his dignity, refuses. Only when faced with the news that his mother is dying back home does Don Jose leave the smugglers. But all the while he vows to come back and reclaim Carmen...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: Bringing Good Opera to the People | 10/24/1984 | See Source »

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