Word: moms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...black, sticky mud lay off the road near San Stephano on a tiny West Indian isle--flabby, middle-aged, and wet from an afternoon thunder-storm. Courtney Courtney Peabody had drowned in the rain. A half-finished letter found in his hotel room contained his last recorded words: "Gee, mom, it's hot as hell down here. When can I come home?" The letter, like Courtney's life, must remain uncompleted...
...foreign car, and no one need explain or apologize for driving one. With thousands of war babies coming of driving age and crying for their own cars, countless families have found the foreign car an inexpensive playmate for Junior-and a less precious article to entrust to freewheeling Mom. The number of two-car families has grown to 17% of all car owners. Now the three-car family is coming along; there are an estimated 375,000 such families...
...selection was made by Mom and Dad. but Japan's bubbly Princess Suga, 20-year-old sister of Prince Akihito, had no objections. Some time this fall, the imperial household announced, Suga will wed a childhood friend, gangly Hisanaga Shimazu, 25. bank clerk, scion of a blue-blooded family and a classmate of Akihito's at the Gakushuin (Peers' School). According to custom. Hisanaga had called on his future father-in-law, who will build the newlyweds a house and provide a $42,000 dowry. And what, asked newsmen, had the Emperor said? "He just asked...
...Fear of Mom. In both Britain and the U.S., hospitals that allow rooming-in by mothers can be counted on the fingers. (In practice, because of work or being tied down by other children, only about half the mothers can take advantage of the chance to room in.) But despite the obvious success of pioneer British programs, many hospital staffs strongly oppose extending the plan. Main reason is fear of mom. Complained one nurse: "You just can't do things that have to be done, when mothers are around." Another: "Mothers can be very difficult, in some cases because...
Since people presumably enjoy reading about themselves, this strongly appealing book should be enjoyed by legions of women who will see themselves (or at least their neighbors) in its heroine's everyday crises and commonplaces, stupidities and minor conquests, emotions half understood and alternatives wholly missed. Unlike choleric, Mom-baiting Philip Wylie, Author Connell sees the Mom of his first novel as a saccharine, easily swayed and sympathetic character. Far from monstrously dominating her husband and three children, Mrs. Bridge is so tame and timid that her daughter Carolyn says coldly: "Listen, Mother, no man is ever going...