Word: mama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mama" v. "Papa." In spite of such strict psychiatric examinations, there are still about 300 more or less serious breakdowns in Army camps every week. According to a report by Dr. George Salvadore Stevenson, head of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, there are three times as many mental breakdowns among enlisted men and the National Guard (who did not get psychiatric examinations before they were accepted) as there are among carefully screened draftees. Most of these men are victims of the most prevalent mental disorder in the U.S.-dementia praecox, a disease characterized by withdrawal from reality...
...Mama Boys' who in peacetime (when there is no selective service) choose invariably the Navy and find that, though the sea may be 'Mama,' the Navy is definitely 'Papa, and blow up promptly in the training station with the shock of the discovery...
...mama done...
Gertrude Niesen's $2,000,000 marble palace in Newport (bought for the torch-singer by Mama Niesen for $20,000) was visited by a man from the water department when the meter had run up a $600 bill. He walked in on a 50-room skating rink, on floors buried under half a foot of ice, to see the grand staircase a magnificent frozen waterfall. The pipes had frozen and burst...
...battling bastards from Bataan, no Mama, no Papa, no Uncle...