Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a good deal of chatter about whether the Senator needs his mother to wipe his nose; with all due respect to Mrs. Rose Kennedy, isn't it possible that it is not the Senator's nose which needs her attention, but his perspective...
...meaning of what you are and what you value remains intact inside yourself, but there you are, splashed all over the papers." There has been "lots of sick mail," says another of the girls, "lots of it." Susan asks indignantly: "How would you feel if a reporter called your mother at 8 a.m. and asked her whether she approved of her daughter's conduct in spending the night with a group of married...
...contrast to some of the other girls in the office," recalls one of Robert Kennedy's former aides, "she gave the impression of having something else in her life besides working for Robert Kennedy. For some of the younger girls, that was all there was." Esther's mother is a former Democratic National Committeewoman from Connecticut. Esther worked for the Senate subcommittee on government reorganization before she joined R.F.K.'s staff in 1968. She now assists the vice president of the Urban Institute in Washington...
...could just as well have been about a pair of maiden aunts or bachelor brothers who in some 30 years have become fussily attuned to each other's quirky habit patterns. Charlie (Rex Harrison) is a peacock with a peckish tongue. Harry (Richard Burton) is a broody, sentimental mother hen with a semi-articulate cluck. Both men have auditioned for life and failed. Running a barbershop in a moldering district of London, they are each other's consolation prize. No hint of lust knits them together, only a saturating fear of loneliness. A special terror...
Soon realizing that virtually all construction equipment had to be bought abroad, Quintana expanded by setting up, by himself or in cooperation with foreign firms, other companies to manufacture the materials and machinery he needed. Says Quintana: "ICA has become a mother-hen company that creates everything and has its own chickens and eggs around it." Among the results of that policy are Industria del Hierro, a machinery producer in Querétaro, and partnerships with a dozen European and U.S. firms-including Link-Belt Speeder Co., now a division of FMC Corp. of California...