Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after that are expected to switch to Hebrew.* A dead language, a language of scholarship and liturgy for centuries, Hebrew has been revived and made the official language of Israel. In earlier days, some of the old folks were shocked to hear Hebrew used in everyday speech. When a mother scolded, "Little Ittomar, blow your nose," in the tongue of the prophets, oldsters winced...
...help of the kind of press that spread the Hat's fame, is learning to pay the same kind of attention to Premier Nehru. He is the nurse and guardian of modern India, orphaned at birth by the death of its father, Gandhi, and the banishment of its mother, the British...
...Liberal Party has been overwhelmed by the Union Nationale), admired elsewhere as a man who combines all that is best in French and English-speaking Canada. He symbolizes the unity which his nomination speech emphasized. For Louis St. Laurent, whose father was a French Canadian merchant and whose mother was first generation Irish, that is not hard. It is often said that when he was young, he never even knew that there were two official languages in Canada: "I just thought that there was one way to talk to my father and another to talk to my mother...
...says). Recently returned from a tour of Vienna lowlife, he is at work on a new thriller and a movie script (The Third Man) for Producers David O. Selznick and Sir Alexander Korda. His slumming adventures are received by his family with mixed feelings. His white-haired old mother very naturally writes them off as nonexistent, says firmly of the use to which her son puts his escapades: "Graham must imagine it." But his aunt looks the other way and admits frankly: "It seems very realistic...
...types recur: the intense, ambitious, unimaginative older son who is the pride of the family and the one whom death cuts down; the hardworking, kind elder sister; the young girl, liberated and "radical"; the pampered shy and idle younger son; and the down-to-earth, eternally anxious, adoring mother who endures...