Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...confess that, even after all these years, my family still harbors a bit of resentment against the Japanese. When I was younger, my mother gave me a sidelong look as I told her about my new Japanese friend from school. Didn't I know the history of Japanese violence? Hadn't she told me enough times about Nanjing? Grandma would have a heart attack...
Though I didn't let my mother's hesitation stop me from being friends with a girl who was obviously born after all of the terrible murders and rapes occurred, I was still impressed by her deep resentment and bitterness. I know that a strongly-worded apology from the Japanese government would matter immensely to her and my grandparents. Indeed, the anger that my mother feels is very intense--and not unique...
Later that year, Williams found out about the ThinkQuest competition from her mother and enlisted the help of Bhushan and Kay in creating the web page...
...Spielberg scenario as their template--children separated from their parents, then found--but this one has the harried air of The Goonies. And the film may have overestimated its hold on a few core constituencies. At a screening last week, a child sobbed as the monkeys stole Dil; a mother checked her watch a few times...
...calmer hair, better teeth, a new nose. But by late this summer she had also seen her case thrown out by a lower court, and her real life was feeling more like an episode from Married...With Children than a segment on Entertainment Tonight: between makeovers, she was a mother with two young kids and an unemployed husband. "After four years, Paula was getting tired," says a family friend. "They were cooped up in this small one-bedroom apartment. She didn't have many friends, her husband Steve spent all day watching those TV talk shows. He was like...