Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once, in the old dead days of the isolationist debate, Britain's devout Lord Halifax stopped to chat with an American mother picketing his hotel with an anti-war banner. He listened gravely to her story of her nine sons, said quietly: "I, too, have sons," shook hands, walked...
Sued for Divorce. By Lieut. Commander William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, 47; Hannah Williams Dempsey, 31, ex-musicomedienne, ex-wife of Roger Wolfe Kahn (son of the late financier Otto); after ten years, two separations; in White Plains, N.Y. She is his third wife (second was Cinemactress Estelle Taylor) and mother of his two children, Joan Hannah, 8, and Barbara...
...Engineering Co.'s radio chief): a covey of small (2,000-ton) cigar-shaped concrete ships, lying low in the water with about a foot of freeboard. The ships are to be without superstructure, without crews, self-powered by diesel engines, controlled by radio from a single armed mother ship (corvette or destroyer). Advantages: the ships would be tricky targets, almost invisible to a submarine or from any distance at sea; loss of a ship would be small loss, cost no lives; construction is fast, cheap, would involve small amounts of critical materials (10% as much steel...
...policy. To Author Louis Adamic, speaking for the land of his birth, Yugoslavia today is a testing ground for all of post-war Europe. In a pamphlet amplifying a recent article in the Saturday Evening Post, Idealist Adamic spoke up with all the burning eloquence of a man whose mother and nine brothers and sisters are still somewhere in Yugoslavia...
...first way is the healthy way. The second usually implies a goal that can never be reached: "the shipwrecked man who has tried vainly to signal for help and finally reverts to calling his mother's name over & over until he is exhausted is an example of how thinking breaks down under the strain of failure...