Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's Tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. Tut! I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing...
Like Bethlehem and Jerusalem, Nazareth is one of the holiest places in Christendom, but it has never enjoyed quite the same awe that the other two names evoke. For Christians, it is the town where Gabriel announced to Mary that she would be the mother of God, the town where Jesus grew up. But even in Biblical times it suffered from a bad press. When the apostle Philip told Nathanael that the Messiah had come from Nazareth, the Gospel of John reports, the incredulous answer was, "Can anything good come out of that place?" In modern times, tourist buses have...
Missed Lollipops. Even Roz, who at 18 is no phony, talks romance. "My sister left home when I was in third grade. Mother and I always came into New York on Saturdays to visit her, and we brought lots of food to stuff her refrigerator. Even when Barbra was in Funny Girl we used to bring in chicken soup and brownies to her dressing room. I guess what I missed most about Barbra's not being home was the trips we used to take to the beach and the lollipops she always gave me when I stopped...
...Half sister, really. After Barbra's father died in 1943, her mother married Louis Kind, a Brooklyn tailor and Roslyn's father...
...accepted in high school English classes. Any teacher who makes it the theme of a classroom exercise can expect a strong reaction - if not from the students themselves, at least from their parents. Which is what happened to Mrs. Timbrook, 36, a truck driver's wife and the mother of nine children, who teaches at Lamphere High School in Madison Heights, Mich...