Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shut the hell up!" I yelled, kicking open the door to the common room. "Your mother and I are fed up with all this noise! It is 10 p.m.! 10 p.m.! 10 p.m.! Do you realize how early I have...
Earplugs would be a fine alternative were it not for the severe health risks involved. After my mother told me about the boy who mistook his earplug for a giant raisin in the middle of the night and choked to death, I have diligently avoided all earplugs. And raisins...
...February, Allen and a former commission psychologist, acccompanied by a TV crew, visited an Arizona Indian reservation to interview a 14-year-old Apache girl, the subject of a custody battle between her natural mother and the white couple who had adopted her. Allen contends that the girl wants to leave the reservation, though the mother has formal custody. The commissioner and the psychologist picked the girl up for the interview on her way home from school. Although they then took her to her mother, the mother filed a kidnaping charge against Allen. He was arrested by local police...
...with a portrait of working-class warmth. "They expect that you come off some family that picked cotton with holes in their shoes," he says. "My grandmother worked for rich white people. Our hand-me-downs were good hand-me-downs!" Though Kelly's grandmother was a cook, his mother was a home economics teacher with a master's degree, his father, a fishmonger, insurance agent and cabdriver...
...What won him over, said Reggie, was Battisti's promise that a tutor would be available to help him through the difficult academic times ahead. "I knew I wasn't no A student," explains Reggie. For the Ford family, it was a shining moment. They are poor. Reggie's mother is disabled from a car accident, his father from a stroke. Reggie was the first member of his family to go to college...