Word: home
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...primary function of woman in society is that of mother and homemaker, [and] her education should not completely blind her to the ultimate career which she will follow .... It is in the mental attitude of the woman when she is faced with the problems of the child and the home that the shortcomings of the college curriculum show up plainest. Her "broadened" mind is humiliated by the trivia of kitchen, baby, and husband which consume all of [her] precious time...
...House Sam Rayburn: 1) keep Congress in session, let it talk itself out, hold its nose to the grindstone, and blame Republican obstructionism for Congress' inaction; 2) let Congress know that if it got down to work on what was left of the Truman program, it could go home...
...drill night last week, 50 white-helmeted MPs came roaring onto the Capitol grounds in a line of bouncing, skidding jeeps. Luckily for all concerned, Congress had gone home for the day. Most of the guardsmen ran off into the bushes with waving pistols and carbines, yelling "Take cover!" But a few drivers kept their jeeps snarling in circles. Other MPs ran to the Capitol steps and set up a light machine...
...find some comfort in the fact," he continued in his characteristic high-pitched voice, "that we have a long-range bomber that can fly from any base in the world, attack targets in the range of 4,000 miles and return home." It was obvious that "workers live near factories and that if you bomb the factories, you may bomb the people . . . Any great injury you can inflict upon the morale of that nation," he added, "contributes to the victory . . . We are all aware of the awful penalty if we lose the war." As for morality-"war itself is immoral...
Novelist Russell (Miracle of the Bells) Janney, juror No. 2 in the nine-month federal trial of eleven Communist leaders, went home after the trial ended, found a notice calling him to appear for jury duty...