Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once Petan slapped a levy on exports of cattle hides. Pipi objected. Their mother, one of the First Ladies of the Land, decided the case. "None of that, Petan," she admonished. "You know the cueros belong to Pipi...
...turning to radio-controlled planes equipped with television. Last week Bell Aircraft Corp. described an experimental plane which takes off and lands with the unwinking eye of a television tube watching the instruments and the horizon ahead. Everything it sees is projected by radio on a screen in a mother plane or on the ground. Observers can study the plane's performance as if they were in the cockpit. If the speed limit is passed, and the plane screams down to earth, no life is lost. The records of the flight survive the crash...
...Secret Room (by Robert Turney) is the story of Leda Ferroni, a mental victim of Nazi torture, who goes-presumably cured-to live with an American family. Before the family catches on, she has turned the kids against their mother, planned a kidnapping, committed one murder, attempted a second. The play might have been a fascinating character study or a menacing yarn. But Leda is bungled and the story is a bore...
...Evelyn) worn down by marriage with a stuffy dullard, but determined that her teen-age daughter Cynthia shall have fun. Unfortunately, Cynthia is a sickly girl. When her dream boy invites her to a dance, although she has a cold and it's raining pitchforks, her life-loving mother lets...
...Zinn pooh-poohed the system, too, until his own wife and mother-in-law, who had arthritis, were helped by Father Aull. Then he began to make careful before-&-after bone and blood checkups on other Aull patients. Finally he was convinced. Dr. Zinn bought 14 chlorine machines, hired the abandoned Bank of Tombstone building...