Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mother country would gain some long-term assets. She would have a say in the disposition of the island's enormous undeveloped resources (including those in virtually unexplored Labrador). She could still oversee Newfoundland's strategic command of the sea and air approaches to the Western Hemisphere and the aviation bases at Goose Bay in Labrador, Gander on the East Coast, the U.S.-leased airport at Stephenville. These were reasons enough for Britain to keep her hand in Newfoundland affairs; why, as Newfoundland's trustee, she refused to commit herself on postwar air rights in Newfoundland territory...
...will be a long time before any U.S. parent forgets last fortnight's scarifying news picture of a little boy lying dead at his mother's feet on an Omaha street after a truck had crashed into his sled (TIME, Dec. 25). J. Harold Cowan, the man who took the picture, will never forget...
...rushed to put on his tire chains, he set off behind the police ambulance (which had chains) in a skidding, hair-raising, 75-block chase over slippery roads, through red lights, down an icy hill. At the bottom of the hill lay the boy. As the mother backed away from his bleeding body and another badly hurt boy was carried screaming to the ambulance, Photographer Cowan carefully focused his camera,* shot the picture...
Mike Jones was the child of divorced parents. He lived in almost puritanic simplicity with his mother, enjoyed the fleshpots of Brazil and Europe with his father. As a young man he slashed his wrists, ineffectually, over a faithless mistress. At 27 he was married and a father. He drank too much, spent too much, quarreled almost continually with his wife. Life seemed intolerable, and in the summer of 1940-helped by a fall on his head-Mike escaped into unreality...
...however intimate, is omitted. The picture of life in a mental hospital is detailed and accurate. But not all the questions are answered. What, for instance, caused Mike's madness? The doctors said they did not know. Mike evidently attributed it to the conflicting attractions of his "good" mother and his "free-living" father. No doubt his own emotional instability helped; Mike clearly was never happier than as a refugee from reality...