Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is nothing jealous about a girl who denounces the English mother of an American soldier's illegitimate quads, and besides we American girls were under the impression that the Army was in England for a purpose, and it isn't that. If we are perturbed about the boys being in England this spring it is because we feel that they are in danger and the danger we fear for them is not an English woman's charms. We were also under the impression that there is a war going on and that...
...loser. Aside from the sailboat, Tooey has another special dream of heaven-to come home to Alexandria in the evening and sit down on the floor of the living room. Then Tatty will mix him a pale highball. His second daughter Becky (wife of an air force lieutenant and mother of Tooey's granddaughter "Pinky") will play Beethoven on the piano. The third daughter, twelve-year-old Carla ("Boops") will join Tooey on the floor with the latest of the stray kittens she collects. And that will be that...
Women at War. My mother was in the underground, as I was. She helped people to escape to Sweden by letting them use her house for an underground station and finding others who would do the same thing. She also collected money for distribution among the wives and children of men in concentration camps. She didn't keep any records of her collections, because they would be very dangerous if she was caught. Her underground work took about four hours every...
...Mother Said Go! When underground workers are caught the Germans often torture them to make them talk. If it is a strong man, they have to torture him nearly to the death to get anything. They take off the fingernails with tongs, knock the men down and jump on their chests, emasculate them. Last winter my superior was caught. Other people in the underground said perhaps he would be tortured and tell the Gestapo my name. They said: "You had better stop working for at least six months...
...underground, when you have an order you carry it out, as in the army. My mother did not hesitate. She said there was no use my being in Norway when I couldn't do any work against the Germans. I felt the same way. So then I left Norway to go outside to find something to do against the Germans...