Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treatment. On July 23, Dr. Thomas Starzl's University of Colorado transplant team removed her liver and replaced it with one from a child killed in an accident. Julie has since had part of a lung and another tumor removed; she may still have cancer. But, says her mother, "she's a lot happier. She's really 100% better. The future-we don't know. We didn't have any before. But I've had her four months longer than I would have otherwise...
Bruce then blurted out that he had shot his mother accidentally with a .22-cal. rifle. Reloading the rifle one cartridge at a time, he had continued to pump bullets into his mother "to put her out of her misery." He next shot her dog, then doused the couch and her body in gasoline and touched off the fire. The confession came as a complete surprise to Criswell, who said later that he had never even suspected the 14-year...
...aunts. He became so enthralled with the world of dress design that plans were made to send him to Paris to become an apprentice in a major couture house. But Hitler's armies were threatening Europe, and instead of going to Paris, Rudi's mother, who died two years ago, fled with her only child to America just before the Anschluss in 1938. Gernreich...
After settling in Los Angeles, where his mother had friends, he divided his days between studying art at Los Angeles City College and working as an office boy for $8 per week, which, together with the small sums his mother earned by baking pastries at home, enabled them to eke out a living. Then one night he happened in on a performance of Martha Graham's modern-dance company. "It had such a tremendous impact on me that it changed my life," he says. An instant convert, he dropped art, began studying with Lester Horton ("a kind of West Coast...
...time of Kirov's murder, Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg was 27 years old, a happily married mother of three children, a loyal party member, and a schoolteacher and journalist in Kazan in eastern Russia. At that time, also, there was published a four-volume History of the All-Union Communist Party, which, in its coverage of the 1905 Czarist terrors, displeased Stalin; it contained certain "errors" in connection with the theory of permanent revolution. Professor Nikolai Naumovich Elvov, who had written the offending passage, also happened to be the author of a source book on Tartar history. Incredibly, Mrs. Ginzburg...