Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Times crossed him up by one day. What the mother paper did on Monday was to blossom out in a new look, with new typography, bigger departments of opinion and women's news, and a green-colored sports section. But Tuesday noon, Publisher Norman Chandler called staffers to his fifth-floor auditorium, solemnly told them: "The news is too exciting to be withheld from you any longer . . . The Times is to sponsor a new newspaper. It will appear in the fall . . . and will be housed in our new annex. If anybody asks you about this, tell...
...took six months off between Eton and Oxford to roam Germany. In Heidelberg one day in 1931, he saw and was shocked by a prenatal symptom of the police state: lines of trucks packed with truncheon-bearing police, ready to charge if unionists clashed with rowdy Nazi paraders. His mother, Nancy Astor, and her Cliveden Set didn't want to be beastly to the Germans during the Munich era, but David Astor was already firmly anti-Nazi...
...around for a few minutes to catch his senses and his breath, and then they took him to the stands where his parents and two brothers were waiting for him. He was speechless at first, and his mother was in tears. After a painful silence, he managed to speak. "I've never worked longer or harder," he mumbled. "I'm hungry. I had steak for breakfast, but that seems days...
...want my baby ever to do it again," Mathias' mother told reporters. "It's too hard...
Another patient was under the delusion that his mother had been murdered by a doctor. Now a gossip columnist, he is beginning to realize that his delusion is irrational. Sometimes just reading the paper* has helped. A paragraph in the June issue jibed: "To -- on Hall 7, are you still chasing spirits all over the place? Catch any?" Roused out of his seclusion by the taunt, the patient on Hall 7 explained to his doctor that he wasn't seeing ghosts as normal people think of them, but "seeing" the animosities of people he came into contact with...