Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Later, at Indianapolis' Southport High School, 8,000 more-children, teen-agers and adults-stamped their feet and clapped their hands as if the home team had just won the state basketball championship. "As I stand here in my mother's state,"* said Nixon, "I am glad to be back home in Indiana." The crowd was nearly evangelical in its response, one woman exclaiming over and over again: "Amen, amen, Nixon! He can't be beat." Along with the usual campaign placards, a new sticker appeared on Hoosier cars: "Feel Safer with Nixon." The candidate must also...
...Monmouth College. "Daddy said, 'Oh, you're so young,' " recalled Remi. But the Senator soon came around, and plans are set for a June wedding at the family's summer place on Martha's Vineyard. Donald's folks were all cheers. Said his mother: "They're in love-and that's all that counts...
...music by Gait MacDermot and the lyrics of Gerome Ragni and James Rado manage to release the pent-up yelps of the sons and daughters of the affluent society. A song like Ain't Got No ("Ain't got no class,/Ain't got no mother,/Ain't got no father,/Ain't got no culture") telegraphs the credo of the self-proclaimed have-nots of the '60s. Satire with a playful nip makes a treat of an air-pollution ditty ("Welcome-sulfur dioxide,/Hello-carbon monoxide,/The air, the air is everywhere"). The dance...
...Staten, the mother of 10, so old and bent she seemed a midget, explained: "I attended this meeting here when I was able. I sent my children to Marks High School (the white high school). The agent kept pickin' on me. Last Tuesday, a week ago, I got a letter said we're going to have to move because they need the house by the 15th. It didn't say it was because of school, but I know the agent, Mr. Webbs. He always wanted to know what kind of meeting this was. 'You know enough already...
...looked for him, first out at his home, a crumbling shack by the highway. His wife and his mother were there, but they did not know where he could be found. Then we looked along the main street in the Negro section of town. Mary Common went on ahead and disappeared into the dark of a pool-room. Inside were a number of young men, all very silent as I entered. David was wearing a straw-hat over a shaven head. By his side his mother and his wife, who had someway beaten us back into town. He smiled...