Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once the President could let himself go at mealtime. His mother had driven over from Grandview for dinner at the Truman house, so he would not have to save room for a second meal at her house. A third dinner he had faced last year turned out this time to be just a snack, with his aunt, Mrs. John T. Noland...
...child in Brooklyn, Joseph Bonavita dreaded Christmas. His father was dead; often he and his mother had nothing on their table but a candle and a plate of spaghetti. Joe swore he would conquer poverty. He became a professional boxer, and finally, fourteen years ago, bought a bar & grill on Brooklyn's bleak Third Avenue. This year black-haired, bash-nosed Joe Bonavita was 39, married, prosperous in a small way and eating well...
...London last week a troubled little orphan, the daughter of one of Britain's war heroines, whiled away the lonely hours wondering why her mother did not come back. In Ravensbruck, a group of hangdog Nazis were awaiting trial for her mother's murder...
...Tania Szabo the New Year brought England's George Cross, awarded to her mother, posthumously, for valor of the highest order...
Each hostel has a house "mother" and "father" but the travelers do their own . cooking and cleaning up. Sleeping quarters are divided by sex, but not by color. Lights go out at 10 p.m. and no smoking or drinking is allowed...