Word: maw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bakery, which had been flubbing along in seventh place among its competitors for years, leaped to the van with gazelle-like ease simply by using Hopalong to promote its Barbara Ann Bread. Every product that adopted his name (at a fat fee to Hoppy) was sucked instantly into the maw of an insatiable demand...
...half-century since he moved from Ontario to a scrubby homestead near Alberta's Bon Accord, life for weather-lined Bill Mulligan, 62, had been hard-pressed. Old Bill and his wife Florence were a local Maw & Paw (The Egg and I) Kettle. They lived in an unpainted shack with their eleven kids. Through the hard winters they had to rip up the floor for firewood. The family's income fell so low that the boys would hire out to neighbors, then borrow the neighbors' farm machinery in lieu of wages to work their own land...
...older boys bought two tractors and a three-ton truck. Maw & Paw picked out a new Chrysler sedan with white wall tires, then "upped and went travelin'." They covered 7,500 miles in Canada and the U.S. Later, back home, they dented a fender in a collision with a truck. Explained one of the kids: "It happened one night when we were going to a fire down the road...
Last week inside the Mulligan shack, for the benefit of visiting newsmen, Maw proudly started up the gasoline engine of a new washing machine. Its chuffy exhaust billowed dust through the room. Cautioned Paw: "Now mom, don't do that. These city fellows don't like getting dust on them." Then he added: "My wife's naturally mechanical...
...Promise. Brack Lee, at 51, is as ruggedly independent an the pioneers who settled in the shadows of the bleak Wasatch range. A 32nd degree Mason and member of no church in predominantly (74%) Mormon Utah, he had defeated Mormon Democrat Herbert Maw in 1948 by promising to run the state just the way he had run his real estate business in the coal-mining town of Price...