Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest room to collect on insurance, Stewart was visited by the ever-solicitous Archerd-and died after the usual convulsions that night. Archerd, recipient of the insurance, tried but failed to collect. At about this time, Archerd's brother Everett died at his job, and Archerd and his mother were entrusted with $5,000 for Everett's son, Burney, 15. In August 1961, Burney was taken to the hospital, where he reported that he had been hit by a car, though an investigation showed no such accident had taken place. Burney nonetheless remained in the hospital, where...
...Father." Readers may well wonder what the Soviets were worried about. Svetlana remembers Daddy as a "loving father who gave out tobacco-smelling kisses" and wrote kind letters promising his daughter pomegranates from the Black Sea coast. She tries to dispose of the old rumor that Stalin murdered her mother, who was his second wife. They had a little quarrel at a Kremlin banquet in honor of the 15th anniversary of the November revolution, Svetlana concedes, but she insists that her mother shot herself that evening. "The fact is," says Svetlana, "that Stalin himself never killed anything in his life...
...under the messianic fanatic Bar Kochba; the legions once again leveled the city, rebuilt it in the form of a Roman camp called Aelia Capitolina. It was not until after A.D. 313, in fact, that Jerusalem won back its old name, when the Emperor Constantine and his Christian mother, Helena, began to build new churches at the shrines marking the major events in Christ's Passion and death...
...spring. Did this make him just a promising rookie? No. It made him God. Day after day, a George Scott story was as regular a feature in the paper as the television listing. WILL GEORGE SCOTT BREAK BABE'S RECORD? INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE'S FIRST GRADE TEACHER. GEORGE'S MOTHER SAYS GEORGE IS A GOOD BOY. So when Scoot flopped from July to September, it was not merely a case of a hot rookie turning cold. It was those cruel working of fate again...
Karen Lynne Gorney (the Cook) is fairly convincing in her difficult role as the sometimes hardened, prideful cook, sometimes protective mother-of-the-earth. The best performance, however, is A. J. Antoon's, who is an actual seminarist playing the role of seminarist-son of the cook. His shame and cowardliness are painfully real...