Word: aprons
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Mother threw her apron over her head, stuck her fingers in her ears and waited for the thing...
...Canada's colonial subservience to the "old country" was all but gone. George VI was, theoretically, still King of Canada, and would remain so. But the ties that long bound the Dominion to Mother England's apron had frayed and snapped, one by one. Of the legal strings, only one remained: in civil lawsuits, Britain's Privy Council is still Canada's court of final appeal. And elimination of that last bond was already in process...
...hysteroid person is a show-off as a child, a complainer as a grownup. He (or she) is a "bachelor in marriage," holding firmly to the apron strings of both parents and using ill health as a method of sadistically dominating his family...
Alcoa's own plants, and those it operates for the Government, now supply 92% of U.S. aluminum. The only other aluminum companies, Reynolds Metals Co. and Olin Industries, Inc., supply only a small 8%. Even Reynolds and Olin are tied to Alcoa's apron strings; most of their alumina (the intermediate material between bauxite and aluminum) is supplied by Alcoa...
Question of Independence. There was another thing, too. Canada wants it known that she is not tied to Britain's apron. Canadians persistently emphasize that their Dominion, while a member of the British Commonwealth, is a fully independent member. They want a seat of their own, and the freedom of action that would go with such a seat, on any world security organization that is set up. Would the Big Three agree...