Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Routine Rain. On Christmas Day, 1945, President Truman wanted to visit his mother in Grandview, Mo. An all-night downpour of sleet, which had sheathed the Washington airport in ice, turned to murky rain by morning. Hank Myers studied the weather reports. He laid out a flight plan, made his decision. At 12:06, the President's plane, with Harry Truman aboard, lifted into the mist. Nearly six hours later, Myers cushioned the Sacred Cow to a landing at Kansas City airport. When newspapers called the flight foolhardy, Pilot Myers was amazed. "Routine," said...
...equestrian statues of him stand in almost every plaza. In 1880 his body was brought back from France, where he had gone in bitter disillusionment over political wrangling, and entombed in Buenos Aires Cathedral. From Spain last week, in two finely worked caskets, came the bones of his father & mother, Juan and Gregoria Matorras de San Martín, who had lived briefly in Argentina, then had gone home to Spain...
...many a Briton, Prime Minister Mackenzie King seemed less a personality than a symbol of a generous Canada that had time & again stood beside the mother country. Said the London Times when he received the Order of Merit: "He has been loyal to Canada, loyal to the Commonwealth, and loyal also to a larger vision of the brotherhood of humanity...
Sometimes the world that survives him thinks of George, father of the Duke, as an amiable successor to the gay and worldly Edward VII, and of his mother, Queen Mary, as the ruler of the family. But the Duke describes his late father as a stern sea dog, a domestic martinet who lived on a clockwork schedule and refused to let David go to public (private) schools lest they teach him bad habits. (" 'The Navy will teach him all that he needs to know...
Every August the grouse season took David's father to the Scottish moors. But his mother preferred to take her brood on a gay cruise "up & down the Thames, in our tiny electric launch, with a white tasseled...