Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...child, sleeping now in the dark and gathering strength for the struggle of birth, I wish you well. At present you have no proper shape, and you do not breathe, and you are blind. Yet, when your time comes, your time and the time of your mother, whom I deeply love, there will be something in you that will give you power to fight for air and light. Such is your heritage, such is your destiny as a child born of woman-to fight for light and hold on without knowing...
...Your immortal warriors, united on their mother soil and determined to drive out the invaders in a noble spirit of sacrifice, serve the common cause of the United Nations...
...town in America of more than 5,000 population. Possibly Mr. Taft exaggerated. Yet surely the principle has been proved time after time in American history. The vast American educational system has set men free -free not alone to serve, but free also to lead. Education is the mother of leadership...
...popular side of the musical tracks. Five years ago he was studying for the ministry at Pomona College, Calif. His father is the Rev. Shirley R. Shaw of the University Christian Church in San Diego. But there was also music in the Shaw family. Robert's mother, Nell Lawson Shaw, was a well-known West Coast church singer. His older sister, Hollace, made a soprano name for herself on the General Electric Hour of Charm radio program. Robert (who was working his way through Pomona by wrapping loaves of bread in a local bakery) became leader of the Pomona...
George Kenney was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 53 years ago. His parents were Americans whose vacation he spoiled by arriving a week early. His expatriate birth was in the tradition of his mother's family: she had been born on shipboard on the Atlantic and one of her sisters had been born in Sweden...