Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard started slowly and had trouble adjusting to UConn's 4-3-3 alignment. Concentrating on the center of the field, the Crimson jammed the middle and made it easy for slick-passing Connecticut to mother any Harvard offensive effort...
...took my mother to see it with me. When she saw the war scenes, she became hysterical." After a brief silence he concluded, "If I had known about the scenes, I would not have taken...
Blood Exchange. With all this in mind, the South Africans confronted the case of Mrs. Mary Voogt, a 29-year-old nurse and mother of two children who was brought to Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital last July in a deep coma. Only a few days before, she had suffered a miscarriage. Early in her pregnancy, she had contracted severe hepatitis, and it left her liver badly damaged. Doctors tried seven blood exchanges, giving her body an entirely new supply of blood each time. Yet there was no noticeable improvement, and finally they turned in desperation...
Died. Michael Carr (born Cohen), 64, a Dublin-reared Jew who wrote the music of some of the most popular Irish songs, including Did Your Mother Come from Ireland? and Everybody's Got a Touch of Irish; in London. Carr ran away to sea as a teenager, worked as a Hollywood bit player before moving to England, where he composed South of the Border and Hang Out the Washing on the Siegfried Line...
...often enough before, from H. G. Wells' time machines to Stanley Kubrick's space odyssey. Moreover, Frayn's first sentence-"Once upon a time there will be a little girl called Uncumber"-gets the whole thing off to a bad start. Sure enough, Uncumber has a mother called Frideswide and a father called Aelfric. The coyly chosen names and the uneasy use of the future tense suggest a particularly tiresome and traditionally British kind of whimsy...