Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time, the more efficient Communist police gave him barely time to kiss his weeping, 85-year-old mother goodbye. Quietly, he said: "Very well," and quietly entered the waiting police car, rosary in hand. Sticking closely to the Sofia decisions, the government announced that Mindszenty was being held incommunicado on suspicion of "treason, attempting to overthrow the democratic regime, espionage and foreign currency abuses." The Communists gave out a long list of incriminating documents said to have been found in "a metal box buried in a cellar in the cardinal's palace...
Mindszenty, the son of a poor peasant, had risen to the highest church office in his land. Some of Hungary's peasants, who used to flock together in crowds of 45,000 to hear him speak, have seen him, even in recent years, working the land at his mother's five-acre farm in the village of Mindzent. Hungarians, who were now asked to believe that Mindszenty was an anti-Semite, remembered his courageous wartime sermons attacking Naziism, in which he declared that "antiSemitism and the proceedings against the Jews are the shame of civilization...
Prior to the discussion the story of a 55-year-old woman "too courageous to cry" was dramatized by students of local colleges to present the problem of "Why has mother become so abnormal lately?" Father Edward H. Nowian of Boston College joined Allport in analyzing the effects of no emotion on her personality...
Lily-White Lynn. Young Patrick learned to skate in British Columbia. But from the time he was five years old his mother was dead set against his choosing hockey as a career. Says Lynn: "Mother didn't want to see her lily-white boy mixed up with those rough characters."† Instead, he was sent to the University of British Columbia to study dentistry. When he flunked out a year later, his father reluctantly agreed to let him play hockey: "I think he thought I'd be lousy and get it out of my system." Lynn practiced eight...
...totally different verdict from the box office. According to Motion Picture Herald, none of 1948's top-grossing films appeared on the "best" lists. Ignoring the critics, as usual, most moviegoers flocked to see The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer, Cass Timberlane, Green Dolphin Street, Life with Father, Mother Wore Tights, Road to Rio and Unconquered...