Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...caught in a philosophical and political vacuum somewhere between Reagan's saber rattling and Walter Mondale's giveaway plans. In 1980 my views found expression in John Anderson. This year I may not vote at all. One of the last wry comments my 80-year-old mother made as she lay on her deathbed last spring was, "At least I won't have to decide who to vote...
...educational family-planning programs. Partly as a consequence, the city's estimated birth rate dropped from 42.6 per 1,000 in 1970 to 31 per 1,000 in 1980 (that was largely offset, however, by a corresponding drop in the death rate). Abortions are still banned, unless the mother's life is endangered or she has been raped, but about 1 million women have them performed illegally every year. About 10,000 of these women die. Says Gynecologist Alejandro Hernández: "The knowledge of contraceptives here is minimal...
Scots admit a clergy candidate who murdered his mother...
...worshiper who whispered to her pew partner: "It should never have happened." She meant that soft-spoken James Nelson, 39, is one of the most prodigal of sons ever to be approved for the Christian ministry. On Oct. 30,1969, near Glasgow, Nelson got into a row with his mother over a girlfriend and, in a fit of rage, began bludgeoning her with a truncheon. When it broke, he went after her with a brick. Nelson dragged her body out to the garage, changed his bloody clothing, washed up and drove into the city, but later that night turned himself...
...also been provided, like his real-life doppelgānger, with a black father and a Mediterranean mother. In the movie, Dad cuffs Mom around a good deal: he is a frustrated musician, which explains these bouts of violent temper; she shrieks and screams a lot, which presumably demonstrates her ethnicity. If women are sexual baubles in Prince's songs, in his movie they are tarnished angels who love to have their wings clipped. Apollonia (the "baptismal name" of Newcomer Patricia Kotero, 22) strips down and jumps into an icy lake to win The Kid's approval...