Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Portland school board had other evidence. A mother wrote in to describe what had happened to her son on Hell Night. "He hardly looked human. He was covered with blood, molasses and sawdust, and was shaking with spasms ... He was covered with red marks across his back and buttocks, the latter broken in many places and swollen . . . His teeth chattered so that he could not talk...
...runt of an amateur boxing team. Sometimes, on trips with the team, he had to serve as mascot and second when there was no boxer on the other squad small enough, i.e., under 100 Ibs., for him to fight. After he moved to Seattle with his mother in 1945, Glisson filled in one night for a dishwasher in a short-order restaurant. He made so much noise that a customer, Horse Trainer Ralph King from nearby Longacres, asked the waitress who he was. Said the waitress: "He ought to be a jockey. He's got the build. And those...
...Greek lists of apocryphal books of the Bible. Because of the difficulty of unwrapping the fragile leather, only a four-by-eight-inch fragment containing 26 lines has been studied so far. The snippet, says Dr. Trever, seems to be a discussion between Noah's father, Lamech, his mother, Bithenosh, and his grandfather, Methuselah, about their ark-building offspring...
White Heat. James Cagney's spectacular film comeback in a hurtling drama about a mother-dependent gangster (TIME, Sept...
...Locomotive God. Loewy first dreamed of building cars and locomotives in Paris, where he was born and spent the first 26 years of his life. His father, Maximilian, was a Viennese journalist; his mother, Marie Labalme, a sturdy Frenchwoman who prodded her children by continually telling them: "Better to be envied than pitied." Young Raymond, the third of three sons, filled his school notebooks with so many sketches of locomotives, automobiles and airplanes that his parents sent him to engineering school...