Word: grewing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Lieberman's spiritual adviser in Washington. "His religious values shape the way he functions as a Senator." But if Lieberman possesses the tragic sense that's one of Judaism's hard-earned cultural gifts to Western civilization, he has managed to subordinate it to an all-American contentment. "I grew up in a multiethnic, multiracial, multireligious community, and I was lucky," Lieberman told TIME last week. "I cannot remember a single instance of anti-Semitism in my youth. That undoubtedly is why I'm so optimistic about the country and about people judging me fairly...
...effect can be quite profound. I know. I grew up in a home much like Lieberman's. We too did not use electrical devices on the Sabbath. As a result, when we sat down to the last Sabbath meal toward the end of the day, we relied for illumination on light from the windows. As the day waned, the light began to die. When it came time for the Hebrew recitation (three times) of the 23rd Psalm, there was so little light that I could no longer read. I had to follow the words of my father as he chanted...
...purpose was to weld a humanoid faceplate onto the gleaming titanium circuitry of Al Gore. Holding the blowtorch was wife Tipper, who not only introduced her husband but narrated and shot many of the still pictures used in the movie. It was a savvy move: Even to someone who grew up listening to her PMRC campaign being reviled by Ice-T and Mojo Nixon, Tipper turns out to be a moralist who's tough to hate, every bit as easygoing and approachable as her husband is stereotypically stiff. ("Al and Tipper: She's human enough for both of them...
...away. He worked as a management trainee for an agribusiness company, delivered messages for a law firm, worked on an offshore oil rig and on a political campaign and on a ranch, and as a sporting-goods salesman at Sears. And with each passing year his parents grew a little more worried about him, and he knew it. It all famously came to a head at Christmas 1972, when he was home visiting and took his little brother Marvin, then 16, to a friend's house. They rolled home late and well oiled, banged into a neighbor's garbage...
FLORA (SHELDON) BUSH 1872-1920 Raised her children in the Ohio county where she grew up SAMUEL PRESCOTT BUSH 1863-1948 An Ohio steel magnate and adviser to President Hoover; believed in corporate paternalism like employee housing and compensation...