Word: claribel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...self-deprecation springs from his country roots in Minnesota. His father was a Methodist minister of Norwegian background who spoke with both a strong accent and a stutter. To augment his $1,800-a-year church salary, he sold corn and cabbages out of his garden. His mother Claribel helped out by giving piano lessons. Fritz, as he was called, had his own chores, like gathering corncobs to burn in the kitchen stove instead of coal. He was an enthusiastic singer who competed in school contests; at Sunday church services the Mondales led the congregation in hymns. In 1938, when...
...Take the Claribel hostile fire indicator. This truck-mount - ed radar "tracks bullets ... and pinpoints their source but," adds the knowing copywriter, "ignores stones or bricks...