Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Breaking Point. In Kokomo, Ind., a divorce was granted to Albert L. Franklin, who testified that he didn't mind so much when his wife threatened him with a knife and beat up his mother, but felt that she went too far when she stole four of his pet rabbits...
This plea from a harassed mother, the wife of one of our Paris Bureau correspondents, is old stuff to J. David Buckner, prime mover of TIME-LIFE International's Personal Shopping Service. During the war our foreign correspondents were pretty much on their own (thanks to outfits like U.S. Army Exchange Service) and needed few supplies from home. The postwar exodus of their wives & children (and of the wives & children of our other overseas personnel as well) to join them abroad changed all that. They needed all sorts of goods & services, most of which were in short supply throughout...
...first time Robert Coombes was accused of attacking a little girl, his mother believed he was innocent. After all, he was only 14. He was a little sullen, but a nice-looking boy with his dark curly hair. That was three years ago. The second time, when he attacked a seven-year-old girl in a cinder-strewn lot near his home in Maiden, Mass., his mother knew better...
Outside the House of Commons another big blizzard snarled transport and set back recovery from The Crisis. But inside the chill Victorian-Gothic chamber, tempers were short and hot. The Mother of Parliaments, majestic but not stuffy, had one of her stormiest, most boisterous weeks in recent history. It went along like this...
...Churchill served notice that he intended to propose a vote of censure this week, the Mother of Parliaments was not exactly furnishing to younger democracies an example of deliberative calm...