Word: sons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...amidst the flurry of excitement over the possible discovery of the body and the race to find out the truth of whether the explorer actually reached the top, Mallory's son John is quietly trying to defuse the importance of the debate, saying that his father cannot be considered the first to summit Everest. "To me the only way you achieve a summit is to come back alive. The job is half done, isn't it, if you don't get down again," he said in an interview on BBC radio. He continued by pointing out that he hoped...
...ideal Mother's Day would be for my son to surprise me by coming home--arriving at the door with a box of Godiva chocolates, all dark...
...panel of a Tintin book rarely depicts anything other than a scene of departure: we bid farewell to the boy reporter as he steams away on an ocean liner, boards an airplane or blasts off into the night sky in his rocket ship. An old man and his courageous son, recently rescued from the clutches of some nefarious revolutionary cell, stand on the dock and wave their handkerchiefs...
...sound grateful, to find silver linings. In Oklahoma City, seven-year-old Megan Varva was showing off her new outfit, the first of many replacements to come. Scott Pitman remembered a woman who had let go of the underpass she was clinging to to hand off her young son. She was swept away; the son survived. For Bruce Silsby, an owner of a destroyed surplus store, reality is a simple matter of moving forward. "Yesterday was the shock of, 'I've lost everything,'" he said. "Now it doesn't matter. We can replace it." Some...
...only people assuming any kind of recognizable parental responsibility for the shootings in Colorado are some of the parents of the victims. In his anguish, Michael Shoels, father of 18-year-old Isaiah, wonders aloud if there is anything he might have done to get between his son and the killers. But, no, Mr. Shoels, it's not your fault. You did your job. You knew him well. Your son knew that life isn't a video game. He was in the library working on a research paper when he was killed...