Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With variations, this story is at least as old as a press report of 1618. Under the title, "News from Perin [Penrhyn], in Cornwall, of a most Bloody and unexampled Murther," the 17th-Century British reporter told how a father and step-mother killed and robbed their rich overnight guest, then discovered that the dead man was their long absent...
Father and mother lived on in Berlin after Allied troops arrived. As winter approached, Karl cut wood and his wife cleaned bricks. Their one room on Dan-zigerstrasse had no windowpanes. One morning last week, as freezing winds and snow swept Berlin, the Neumanns could not force themselves to get out of their bed, though it had only one thin eider down for cover. That night the wind tore loose the cardboard over the window; snow drifted in at the foot of the bed. Next morning the Neumanns, paralyzed with cold, could not move. After another day and night they...
Publisher Raul Damonte Taborda fled to Uruguay. Then his mother-in-law and the paper's chief owner, Señora Salvadora Medina Onrubia de Botana, gave up the battle, let pro-Perón federal officials take over. Last week Señora Botana and the federals celebrated the surrender-by toasting...
...Morse Rummel, was blacklisted in the American zone in Germany as an ex-Nazi stooge. Born in Berlin to the daughter of the telegraph inventor's second wife, he had lived in the U.S. as a child, returned to Germany at 17, taken German citizenship in 1944. His mother once taught the Bible to President-to-be Teddy Roosevelt...
Empress Dowager Sadako of Japan, moon-faced "Mother of God," finally came down from the heaven-nestling mountain resort of Karuizawa for a palace visit with her Emperor son. She had ascended about the time of Japan's surrender, remained on high ever since...