Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mother Allen now lives in Washington, with fading memories and many pictures of Terry, mostly on horseback. One of her memories is of Terry Allen as a little boy, legs akimbo on a horse, riding off to maneuvers with his father and his father's men. One of Terry Allen's memories is of himself learning to ride, smoke, chew, cuss and fight at the earliest possible age. According to his biographer, The New Yorker's A. J. Liebling, Terry once found a playmate crying. The playmate explained that his mother had just spanked...
Hardy Abe. Lincoln, the son of a lean, tired mother, was conceived during a bitter rainy spell at the end of an unusually hard Kentucky winter. All this, says Petersen, predisposed him to a lanky figure, active metabolism, fickle blood pressure and extreme sensitiveness to the environment. In the harsh winters of the Kentucky and Illinois wilderness, he grew up with strong inhibitions (developed to conserve his physical strength), tired, moody, sensitive to the weather and to men. In his sex life he was by turns passionate (he "could scarcely keep his hands off [women]") and inhibited. But the weather...
Miss Bergman was an only child. Her mother died when she was three. Her father, a big, merry, popular photographer-artist, who liked to flex his basso in the bathtub, hoped his daughter would become an opera star, and early accustomed her to the enjoyment of routines before cameras. Ingrid was deeply attached to her father, but even before he died, when she was 13, she was much alone and without playmates. As soon as she learned to walk, and about as naturally, she learned her famous self-sufficiency and intactness. And she learned the thing that made it possible...
...soldier in North Africa thought he had figured out a sure method of beating the censors and letting his family know exactly where he was. He sent his mother a sequence of letters, each envelope giving her a different middle initial, the initials spelling out the city. But the letters reached home out of sequence. He got a pained and bewildered reply: "We cannot find this place Nutsi anywhere on the map of North Africa...
...Board hearing in Miami, Methodist Schweitzer's mother, whom he supports, testified that he does a long daily stint in a dairy, held that this constitutes more war work than the School Boarders achieve. Also supporting Schweitzer were his principal, students, parents, friends. Some arguments...