Word: sons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...befits a man of his timbre, Christoph boasted a heady admiration for America's paragon of manliness, the Old West cowboy. We were chatting about Westerns and cowboys one day in broken English--my German goes no further than "bier" and "bratwurst"--when he told me of his son's "cowboy coloring book." I was encouraged, to say the least, that America had given this exemplar of the strenuous life an untainted character worthy of his children's admiration (I never saw his son without a red John Wayne neckerchief). But then Christoph sang impromptu of the "Wicki-wicki Wild...
...Newton told top Air Force officials that the T-3 fixes wouldn't be completed for up to two years, and the brass ordered the program scrapped. "For me, obviously, it's too late," said LINDA FISCHER, whose son Dan died in the first T-3 accident. "But it's good to know that no one else at the academy will suffer because of that plane...
Jonathan's mom Robin Norice, 38, an IRS tax examiner, has had her son in the program since the fourth grade because, she says, "I want him to have the same educational experience as whites"--one of higher quality than he would get in the inner city. Jonathan's neighborhood friends often taunt him for being too good to simply walk the six blocks to Roosevelt High. But "all they do there is fight every day," he says. "You've got to worry about the gangs and what color you're wearing." He appreciates Webster's relative safety...
...lucky I haven't had a nervous breakdown," says Janet Gewinner as she looks on while her 17-year-old son Matt leaves for hockey practice. She reminds him to take the medication in the kitchen. For him it is a life-and-death issue...
...head, but tonight his dad Bobby Sr. is running the electric razor. It's an awkward moment; this is the most the two of them have spoken in weeks without throwing a gibe. His father compliments Bobby's handling of the clippers. He's been trying to talk his son into going to trade school or perhaps opening a barbershop with him. The remark hits a nerve, but Bobby hides it. Will his dad ever understand...