Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mother Lode. Then the committee hit the mother lode. Major General Oliver Echols, wartime materiel chief of the A.A.F., set the committee on the track of another Hughes project: the high-speed XF-II photoreconnaissance plane, in which Planemaker Hughes had crashed a year ago. Whooping with delight, the committee learned that the XF-II had been urged on the Air Forces by none other than Colonel (later Brigadier General) Elliott Roosevelt...
Nothing Doing in Owosso. In his native Michigan, on the last lap of his trip, he had encountered a distinct coolness among Republican state leaders. To be sure, they came to visit him at Owosso, where he spent four days with his mother, Mrs. Annie Dewey (whom he calls "Mater"). With Arthur Vandenberg on their minds, Michigan Republicans were noncommittal about even a second-or third-ballot vote for Dewey. But Dewey was confident they would come...
...summoned the press to pink lemonade, vanilla ice cream and green gage plums on the lawn of his big house in New Delhi. Then he read a 2,500-word statement. "I ask that people treat the cow and look after it as well as they look after their mother."† Soon thereafter, his six newspapers began referring to Dalmia as president of the "Cow Protection League." They designated...
Australian doctors were marveling last week at a baby story in their Medical Journal. The baby's young mother, when seven months pregnant, had accidentally shot herself in the abdomen. A surgeon found that the .22 bullet had gone through her uterus. He sewed up the mother's wounds, deciding against a Caesarean for fear of infection. Five days later a premature 5½ lb. baby was born alive and healthy except for a bloodless bullet hole drilled neatly through its thigh...
Died. Martha Ellen Truman, 94, the President's mother; in Grandview, Mo. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...