Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrival set off a small furor. U.S. Customs, tipped off that an obscene doll was being imported, sent an inspector to investigate. He took one look and brushed the complaint aside. But more determined opposition was building up elsewhere. In Norwood, Ohio, Mrs. Stephen Wetzel, a mother of three, read about the doll in the newspapers, formed a committee that has since mailed off over a thousand letters of protest to Government officials, churches, clubs and department stores, branding the $19.95 doll an "obscene toy." Southern California is currently being blanketed by other protesters who believe that Little Brother will...
...appeal was mounted, and last year, for a variety of reasons-among them the prosecutor's suppression of evidence-the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the conviction. Last week at the new trial, the girl-now married and the mother of two-did not even show up to testify. The prosecution's case collapsed, and the Giles brothers walked out of court as free men. Strategy is now being mapped to free Johnson as well...
...Rose Kennedy, 77. Composed and strikingly attractive in a hot-pink dress, she was interviewed by CBS Newsman Harry Reasoner in the simple three-story frame house in Brookline, Mass., where President Kennedy and three of her other eight children were born. 'To give courage to other mothers because so many people are discouraged about their children," Mrs. Kennedy mused about her son's chronic tardiness and lack of discipline at boarding school. She told how "the President" heeded her motherly advice to wear a striped tie on TV because it looked chic, and to keep his hands...
...mother, Mavis Pearl, straightened him out right quick. "Stop talking like a fool," she said...
...year sentence. For a drifter who finds even open society confining, prison ought to prove unbearable, but Luke plays it cool. Eventually, he wins over his most hostile fellow inmates by refusing to knuckle under to the sadistic guards. One day he receives a telegram that his mother has died. She is his last tenuous touch with the outside world, and under the strain, he finally cracks. Sitting on his bunk, Luke, an avowed village atheist, brokenly sings a parody of an oldtimey hymn: "I don't care if it rains or freezes/long as I got my plastic Jesus/sitting...