Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...language of Theodore Roosevelt to describe himself as "the man in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs. . ." Next day, the official day of resignation, he was near tears as he bade his staff farewell. He talked about his mother, "a saint," and urged his followers to be charitable. "Others may hate you," he said, "but those who hate you don't win, unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself...
Mondale lauded family life, hard work and patriotism, pointing to his running mate as the embodiment of such values. Ferraro in turn talked about how "I've worked for everything I've gotten" and praised Mondale for Rockwellian virtues. "Those are the values my mother taught me, and they're the values John and I have passed on to our children...
Away from the track, the essential aim is to keep Carl's life as close to normal as possible. To provide some of the insulation of home, his family has set up house in Los Angeles. Mother Evelyn, Father Bill and Sister Carol, who will probably earn a medal in the long jump, are staying with him in a two-story white stucco house on a residential street six miles from the Los Angeles Coliseum. The house is a haven where Lewis can be himself, by himself. If he wants to, as he did one day last week...
...setting is an imaginary empire. An abortive revolution has been quelled by the General (Baritone Victor Braun). A deserter is executed; later, his wife and her mother, who have been looting corpses in order to survive, are also shot. Sickened by the carnage, the General turncoats and is imprisoned in an insane asylum. There the inhabitants obsessively recite litanies of violence as they tear their hair and rend their clothes. When the General once again refuses an order to take the field on behalf of king and country, his eyes are put out. Images of his victims appear before...
Because of a technicality, Wilson was spared prosecution for the murder contract he had put out on his hated former wife, the mother of his two children. "Take her off somewhere and break her neck," he told a prospective hitman, who went to the authorities. Wilson specified that he wanted Barbara Wilson's corpse stripped of her jewelry, especially her big diamond ring. "It's my good-luck piece," he said. "I want it back." Asked what he would pay for the job of killing her, he replied, "She's worth...