Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been soaked in lemon juice for twelve hours and you would have sworn it had been cooked." Grandmother Coxey's Potato Soup. "I have never seen a printed recipe for this soup, but make it according to my father's recollection of how his mother (born and raised in Germany) used to make it for her family of eleven children...
...father, a famous Yugoslavian doctor, was taken to Vienna in that year, and soon afterwards Yarmakov and his mother went to join him. Yermakov worked in a factory in Vienna...
Przybielski's mother is now in England. "When I finish my studies," he says, "I'll have money to brings her over...
Whatever the ancient Greeks may have thought, life among the gods up there on Olympus wasn't always a bowl of nectar. Take the case of Venus, or let Author Erskine take it. Her mother-in-law Juno was a suspicious, embittered shrew. Sister-in-law Minerva, an athletic type, tried to knife her as soon as her back was turned...
...keep his hands off her! If he doesn't, I'll break his neck!" Actually, Vulcan had nothing to fear from Mars. The god of war was better looking, but Vulcan had all his hair. Venus' real weakness was not gods but men, something her mother-in-law was shrewd enough to suspect...