Word: sons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shrill tenor, with the thick accent of Szechwan, a province of central China known for its spicy cuisine, gentle climate and soaring, mountainous scenery. Little is known of Teng's early life or, for that matter, of his private life today. He is believed to be the son of a landlord. He was born in 1904 in Hsieh-hsing, a village near China's wartime capital of Chungking. His given name was Kan Tse-kao, which he changed to Teng Hsiao-p'ing (an underground alias that means Little Peace) when he joined the Communist Party...
Some time during this Christmas season, a father selecting a suit for his son or a sugar daddy eying a bauble for his woman friend will pull out a plastic credit card to pay for it, and the U.S. consumer will be $1 trillion in debt. Figuring that in an inflationary period the wise person borrows while the fool saves, the consumer has been piling on debt at a quickening rate, buying new houses, new toys and just about everything else. Private debt now averages more than $4,600 for each man, woman and child...
...Son of a successful Manhattan lawyer, McEnroe played plenty of tennis as a boy, but he was not raised in the kind of hothouse, year-round pressure to succeed that produced Connors or Chris Evert. He even went out for soccer at school. Yet tennis was obviously his game?that touch was always there, that feel for the ball that cannot be taught?and he made a superbly dramatic entrance to the big time: gaining the semifinals at Wimbledon in 1977 at the age of 18, the youngest male ever to do so, before losing to Connors...
Their eleven-year marriage produced two children, a son Steve, named after the leading character in To Have and Have Not, and a daughter Leslie, after Leslie Howard, the British actor killed during...
...German officer to revile Jehovah. "Curse your God!" the officer screams, promising him an easy job if he does so. "God is God," the man prays. "God alone is God." "God" is on the man's lips as he dies. "I was there," testifies the martyr's son. "You see, my father . . . my father was a hero ... But he was not a believer." There are other more pitiful tales: the family that can hide only one child safely, and must choose which one. Or a girl in a schoolroom, asking if there is no excuse, no mitigating evidence...