Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When she stepped ashore in Haifa, she wept. Feige Fried's mother, seven brothers and sisters would never know Palestine's freedom. They had disappeared into the Nazi crematorium at Oswiecim; Feige escaped...
William Braden made a point of taking his family wherever he went. When schools were scarce, Spruille's mother tutored him. At 16 he entered Yale's Sheffield Scientific School, took a year off to mine, cut timber and slush about the oilfields of the West, then graduated at 20. Yale knew "Fat" Braden as an All-America goal in water polo, and as a discriminating but notable eater. His class annual characterized him: "He hath eaten me out of house and home." His mother later said that the English language, as perfected at Yale and spoken...
...After we came out of our mother's body, we began to reach out, little by little, toward the world . . . running back toward the pink egg when we grew too afraid . . . or when the steps came too close together or seemed too steep...
Aurore Dupin was a center of controversy from the day she was born. Her mother, Sophie, daughter of a Paris bird-seller, bore several illegitimate children (they all died) to her aristocratic lover, Captain Maurice Dupin, before he was persuaded into marriage a month before Aurore's birth. Then mother and daughter hooked themselves onto the baggage train of Napoleon's Peninsular armies and trailed around after the captain, who was aide-de-camp to Marshal Murat...
When bold Captain Dupin was killed by a fall from his horse, the captain's haughty mother methodically set to work to get possession of her beloved son's child. She offered destitute Sophie the choice of starving to death with Aurore, or living on a handsome allowance without her. Sophie chose the allowance and handed Aurore over to grandmother...