Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Memory. In New Haven, Conn., Edward Morse, 27, confessed to slashing nine valuable paintings at the Yale Art Gallery because the portraits looked like people who came to his house when he was young and threatened to harm his mother...
Trier was founded, as Augusta Treverorum, in 14 B.C. by the Emperor Augustus, became the chief city of the Gallic tribe of Treveri. Because of its strategic location, Diocletian made Augusta Treverorum an important provincial capital. Constantine the Great beautified it. His mother, Empress Saint Helena, presented it with the "Holy Coat" or Seamless Tunic of Christ, which remains to this day the chief treasure of Trier's 4th Century cathedral. On the other hand, Trier is also the birthplace of Karl Marx. The Nazis set up a printing establishment in his house, then Allied bombs destroyed...
Lady Montgomery, 79-year-old mother of Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, predicted that the war in Europe would be over by March 23, and what's more-reported London's Evening Standard-she "has written to the Field Marshal to make sure her forecast is fulfilled...
...shock was lasting. "For a long time I was chastened whenever I remembered that my mother had come close to killing me." Throughout his childhood, at mo ments of extreme tension, he would be come immobile, in full possession of his mental faculties but without the power to make his hands or his voice obey his will. He was nervous and imaginative in a world where only the strong-willed and easy-going got along. When his mother got a job as a cook he ran wild in the streets of Jackson, sneaked into saloons and begged drinks from...
Richard's uncles and aunts were solid, successful people: schoolteachers, carpenters, mail carriers. When his mother fell ill, they impoverished themselves to pay for her operations and care. She was in bed for ten years. "My mother's suffering grew into a symbol in my mind, gathering to itself all the poverty, the ignorance, the helplessness; the painful, baffling, hunger-ridden days and hours. . . . A somberness of spirit that I was never to lose settled over me during the slow years of my mother's unrelieved suffering, a somberness that was to make me stand apart...