Word: mom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this guy, this Brown, follows me outside and starts yelling about treating his wife right and all this nonsense. I've known M.D. for a long time. I had enough of her when Dad was alive. I didn't want to sit at her table. After all, Mom is in town. Oh, it was murder...
...lower temperatures the brain needs less oxygen and can get along longer without it. "In this case," says Dr. Bailey, "I was glad of those extra two minutes." Judith was "thawed out" slowly. Next morning her temperature was normal, and she greeted her anxious parents with a cheering "Hi, mom! Hi, dad!" Last week Judith flew home to Cleveland. "She's a normal girl now," says Dr. Bailey...
...high-school track (1945-48), Bob won 40 first places and broke 21 records. He was only a fair student. When he came home once with a rare "A" on his report card, he grinned self-consciously: "Well, Mom, I guess I'm a grind now." There was nothing mediocre about his growing athletic record. As a football fullback he averaged almost nine yards a carry. Tulareans have it that one team didn't even try to stop him: "They just let him through, peaceful like." In basketball, in his senior year, he averaged 18 points a game...
...started the runners, but the fog was so dense we could see nothing else." Fighting foot cramps and a sick stomach, Bob staggered across the finish line five minutes and eleven seconds later to clinch his title. When he got his wind back and found his mother, he said: "Mom, how did I ever get into this? I wouldn't do it again for a million dollars...
...like Stark and Ed Herlihy (who often doubles as a master of ceremonies as well as an announcer) achieve sincerity by aiming their sales talk at a single individual instead of the millions in their audience. Herlihy plays to a Mrs. Lucey in Maine. Stark says: "I play to Mom Schlegelmilch in Garrettsville, Ohio. When I was a radio announcer she wrote and said I sounded like one of her boys. When she saw me on TV she said I looked like one of them...