Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mother, may I go out to swim...
Jimmy Carter and his wife and his mother-in-law began in the early morning of last Thursday, and by dusk they had been from Gulp's Hill at Gettysburg (also stopping not far from the battlefield for a friendly visit at the home of Mamie Eisenhower) to the site of John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry. The President leaped up on the rocks, put field glasses to his eyes to peer into the woods and gazed on the weathered monuments. Was Lee trying to save ammunition at Gettysburg? he asked. Where was the wheatfield...
Honorable members dived for cover under their antique, leather-padded benches last week as demonstrators protesting Britain's military presence in Northern Ireland hurled something worse than slogans at the august mother of parliaments. Despite strict security, a man and a woman had managed to smuggle a truly noxious bundle of objections into the visitors' gallery at Westminster: packages of horse manure. After bombarding the M.P.s with the missiles, the coprophilic dissidents-one of whom was Yana Mintoff, 26, daughter of the Prime Minister of Malta-were dragged off by police...
...wise student of the economy, has the most clout. Henry Wallich, a former Yale professor, is the board's contact man with foreign central banks. A refugee from Germany, he lived through insane inflation there in the 1920s; he likes to tell of the day that his mother handed him a billion-mark bill so that he could buy a ticket to a swimming pool. Stephen S. Gardner, a former chairman of Philadelphia's Girard Trust Bank, is an economic moderate, and Philip Coldwell, once head of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, is a hardline conservative who considered...
...Leon Lieb, who owns a chain of nursing homes and uses cajolery, threats and his-and-her fox cloaks as he obsessively tries to transform his son-in-law into a proper husband. But the newlyweds insist on going their own comic way: secreting a poet's mad mother in one of the nursing homes, serving as interior decorators to a psychotherapist who conducts his sessions in coffins. When Sudah renounces art for yoga, embracing celibacy as well, Mara is demoted from wife to sister. Disgruntled, she continues to work on her magnum opus, a series of short stories...