Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 20-year-old mother of a 1½-year-old, expected her second any minute...
...Mother. It was not surprising that The Goddess of Crete (known variously as the Triple Goddess, the Earth Mother, the Snake Goddess-see cut) was the hit of the show: she had a long, ancient history of success...
...only six inches high, and at first glance her flounced skirt, wasp waist, bare breasts and triple crown looked comically ahead of the fashion. She had roamed the Mediterranean with Cretan pirates. She was reportedly worshiped from Asia Minor to Spain as the eternally virgin mother of all things, the new moon, full moon and old moon, whose baby boy (the sun) went down to death each year. All life was supposed to flow from her inexhaustible breasts...
...dropping the fourth atomic bomb. Their target runs were secret, lest sharp-eyed newsmen guess too much. Not so secret was the test flight of an ancient, radio-controlled B17. Guided by radio impulses from a jeep, the creaking, beaten-up bomber struggled into the air. Then a "mother plane" took its controls by radio, circled it round the field. Riding with its two hands-off pilots were two volunteers: a male and a female correspondent. The landing was rough, close to a crackup, but the Air Forces considered the test successful. On Crossroads Day, it announced, it would...
Zero Hour. A single B-29 will carry the Model-T bomb at Crossroads. More B-29s will fly above it, to drop instruments in parachutes. The "mother planes" will hover at a fairly safe distance, ready to shepherd their crewless "drones" into the radioactive cloud. At Zero minus 15 seconds, another ring of B-29s, each carrying at least 25 cameras, will turn and head for the target...