Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found her thin. They missed her usual warmhearted gusto. Lines of weariness were traced on her face, netting her friendly blue eyes in a delicate web of fatigue. They were eyes that had seen much-perhaps too much for one who, along with her several other distinctions, is a mother with four sons in uniform...
...other U.S. mother had seen so much of the panorama of the war, had been closer to the sweat and boredom, the suffering. Eleanor Roosevelt had ridden in jeeps, reviewed troops, rubbed elbows with some more of the world's great, had seen places under enemy attack. But it was of the men she had seen and talked with that she wanted to tell. As one mother speaking to other mothers she reported on her trip to the far-off places of the Pacific. Highlights of her report...
...trouble news again. The U.S. filed a tax lien against him for $121,858 allegedly owing on last year's income. Sean, his two-and-a-half-year-old son, got his foot caught in a drainpipe in Newport (where he was winding up the summer with his mother, Lili Damita), had to be sawed free by police and firemen...
...argument: Chinese is the mother tongue of 450,000,000 people. Hardly more than 200,000,000 people can claim English for their own. There is no easier, simpler language to learn than the simplified "basic" Chinese of 1,000 characters which has made possible China's huge spread of literacy in recent years...
...Greenfield got his start 27 years ago in a $5-a-week selling job for a shopkeeper friend of his mother's. Three years later he opened his own shop with his sister (the "Bess" of Bes-Ben, now married and out of the business). Two years after that he had gone from one employe and a $35 rent bill...