Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White Heat. James Cagney's spectacular comeback in a drama about a mother-dependent gangster (TIME, Sept...
...When his mother died in 1910, his strongest tie to the old country was cut. His father wanted him to go to Zurich to study industrial chemistry, but the boy had grown up in a fertile country and was fascinated each spring by the return of the generative cycle. Frequently he asked himself: What is life? How does it begin? How does it function...
This year (TIME, April 4), Dr. Waksman announced that he and an assistant, Hubert Lechevalier, had isolated another antibiotic from a soil microbe which Waksman named Streptomyces fradiae in honor of his mother. The drug, neomycin, is as effective as streptomycin against tubercle bacilli in the test tube, and Waksman hopes that it can be combined with streptomycin in treating tuberculosis...
...child, called Yeshua, is proud to be known as "Mother's boy." Miriam calls him "tinoki" (baby) and dresses him in spotless white linen. She cannot help, as he grows older, setting him apart from his brothers, the sons she bears to Joseph.* When Yeshua begins to sense his Messiahship (in a miraculous answer to prayer at 13), Miriam's life becomes a struggle between motherly joy and motherly foreboding. After the miracle of the wine at the wedding in Cana, she loses sight of him until just before the end. Asch brings her into the Garden...
...Mother!" Yeshua moans, and dies...