Word: home
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...telephone rang in Eleanor Roosevelt's home in Hyde Park. It was Cardinal Spellman on the line. Two weeks before, angry at Mrs. Roosevelt's opposition to federal aid to parochial schools, he had accused her of "discrimination unworthy of an American mother," and announced flatly that no matter what Mrs. Roosevelt had further to say, "I shall not again publicly acknowledge...
...felt that he had found a haven at last. World War II had made him a wanderer; his wife had died of hardship, his mother had died in a concentration camp and his sister had disappeared. Afterward, Tito's government had refused him the right to go home to Yugoslavia...
Last week, after nine years of military service, Howley (now a brigadier general) resigned to go home to his advertising business. To succeed Reservist Howley as commander in Berlin, U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy got a topflight U.S. professional-Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, wartime commander of the famed 101st Airborne Division, later Superintendent of West Point, more recently Chief of Staff of U.S. forces in Europe. Taylor's most spectacular wartime exploit came in 1943 when-he slipped through the German lines wearing his U.S. uniform, and under the Nazis' noses made his way to Rome...
Said Szabad Nep: "A Communist is a Communist not only in the party but in his home life. He must ... be a model husband, wife, father or mother who cares for his children and educates them to become faithful members of the working class." One particularly important duty of the model father or mother: rejection of the "bourgeois slogan" of free love...
...woman desires to express by a spotlessly laundered blouse or neatly groomed hair that she lives and works in a healthy and free country . . . You are 35, married, and have a child . . . Did you ever think what it would mean to your husband* if he could see you at home in a clean hostess gown of multi-flower print, your cheeks and hands smelling fresh? . . . And, I implore you, don't stand at the hot stove in the same dress you come home in. Put an apron around your waist, one of those plastic aprons with ruffles. They...