Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this, surely a State should feel financial liability to the extent of assistance until suitable permanent employment could be found-if greater financial compensation is impossible under existing laws. Thanks to TIME [Aug. 27] and the Chicago Daily Times for publishing the story of Joe Majczek and his mother...
...next morning, ready for the 20-mile drive to Grandview to visit his 92-year-old mother. He found her well, "as fine as she could be." As usual, she gave him a maternal admonition. "Mother just told me to be careful and I'm trying to follow her advice...
...downtown hospitals, including that of Keio University, the city's second largest, were gone. Holy Mother (Catholic) Hospital still stood. So did St. Luke's (Protestant Episcopal), largest U.S. mission hospital in the world. The Japanese had renamed it "The Greater East Asia Hospital" and had removed its golden cross...
...long talk. His name was Dietrich. He was eight. He wore clean but patched clothes, was lean as a wolf and just about as quick. He spent a lot of time around the press camp, particularly in front of the enlisted men's mess, picking up butts. "My mother smokes the long ones and we exchange the others for potatoes," he explained seriously...
Dietrich lived in a small, neat, almost undamaged house. He, his six-year-old sister Heidi and his mother had two rooms; the four others were occupied by a grey, staring-eyed woman of 40-odd with six children, one of whom, a boy of 16, had just returned from a British P.O.W. camp...