Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grandview, Mo. airport to meet him were his mother, who had been in bed with a cold, his brother, Vivian, and his sister, Mary Jane Truman. Visitors were banned. After a night in Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel, the presidential party drove some 50 miles to 97-year-old William Jewell College at Liberty...
...nostalgia for better days which shaped life in the South after the Civil War. His father, who had fought as a Confederate cavalry officer with General John H. Morgan's Raiders, died when he was only three, victim of the great yellow fever epidemic of 1878. His mother, daughter of a once wealthy North Carolina family, and a woman who had been educated in a select Philadelphia female academy, raised her brood of three children alone...
...Normandy. Said Mrs. George S. Patton: "I feel soldiers should stay where they fall. . . . General Patton . . . would always have wanted to have been buried with his men." Mrs. Simon Bolivar Buckner, whose husband was killed in action at Okinawa, expressed the same thought. So did Mrs. Clara Jane Hawkins, mother of the Marine lieutenant for whom Tarawa's airfield is named, and the young widow of another Marine hero, Sergeant John Basilone who died...
Said Mrs. Nicholas E. Young, mother of Private Rodger Young whose heroism at New Georgia has been commemorated in ballad: "The body is nothing, the spirit is everything, and I feel that Rodger's spirit is always with...
...dentists gave three silent cheers last week for Dr. Walter C. McBride, an intrepid fellow. Dr. McBride, director of children's dentistry at the University of Michigan, spoke a heartfelt mouthful about mothers who insist on following their young into the operating room. Particularly objectionable: the mother-knows-it-hurts type; the ones who say "Johnny, spit like the dentist told you to." Mama, Dr. McBride forcibly implied, should stay the hell in the waiting room...