Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brownsville, Tex., a bus driver figured out a yardstick for determining a child's age no matter what his mother said. "I look at their teeth. If they have a full set, they...
...woman of 94-though Mrs. Truman has survived two fractures of the left hip and one of the shoulder in the last six years. At 7:45 the next morning Harry Truman took off from Washington in the Sacred Cow.* Five hours later he was in his mother's bedroom, a box full of flowers in his arms...
There he ran across a couple of old friends. He told them his mother was "resting easy," and ordered the roast beef blue-plate special (70?). The other customers-a couple of farmers, some railroad men in blue jeans-paid little attention. Two people went on playing the juke...
...Weeks' Wait. After lunch the President went back to his mother's one-and-a-half story frame house to find out what the doctors had to say. The diagnosis: "Complete fracture at the neck of the right femur." Traction should pull the bone into good position, they told him, and she might be out of bed in six weeks...
...extreme right-wing X-ites* broke into his house last May. "We were dining at about 11 at night, when five or six men came into the house. They killed my brother, who was a royalist though I am a leftist, broke my sister's arm, my mother's arm, wounded me in the leg, wounded another sister in the cheek. Now we live with relatives, six in one room...