Word: moms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...followed Brigham Young across the plains, traveling in a covered wagon with his mother, widowed when a mob lynched her husband. Growing up near the Great Salt Lake, he had five wives and 42 children; his tenth son was Joseph Fielding Smith, who recalls: "I called my mother 'Mom' and my father's other wives 'Aunt.' They each had their own house and lived separately. The Lord had commanded us to have plural marriages; they were needed because we had lost so many during those marches across the plains...
...long as Pop continues to concern himself only with such issues as "who will win the pennant this year" or "which beer holds its head the longest," why should he resent Mom's wearing the rather heavy mantle of responsibility which rightfully should rest on his shoulders? Especially since most of us would welcome the opportunity to again slip into something more comfortable...
...that he would rather have that medal than be President, and "all the guys agreed, except this thin lieutenant from Massachusetts." Casting a miscellaneous eye, Sahl thought it not unlikely that, after the playing of The Star-Spangled Banner, Lenny Bernstein would come on-camera to explain it. Introducing "Mom" Walker, chief telephone operator at convention headquarters, Sahl said: "They have good exchanges for a convention-like RUthlessness, BLitz, AVarice and MAchine." Deadline for Treason. Teeth flashing, head characteristically bobbing, muttering "Onward! Onward!" between jokes, Sahl always managed to seem surprised when people laughed. "I'm for capital punishment...
...Mother's Day, the New York Herald Tribune took a look at the current crop of Broadway offerings, published tidings that Mother is having heavy going onstage right now as the ideal of every red-blooded American boy and girl. In five dramas now seething in Manhattan, Mom is depicted as a mean lady, a monster, or absolute family nemesis. The quintet: Bye Bye Birdie, Five Finger Exercise, Gypsy, Toys in the Attic, Once Upon a Mattress. Interviewing some of the stage mothers involved, the Trib also learned that any actress can forgive herself for playing an unsympathetic role...
...erratic, forgetful, sometimes downright dotty, but forever cooking and mending for the brood-comes through as a genuine heroine. Her son has performed the feat of conveying her love, and his, without once slipping into the treacle that sons find almost impossible to avoid when they praise Mom...