Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When I was a little boy, my mother told me that anyone could become President. Now I know what she meant...
SEVERAL WEEKS AGO his mother had forwarded the notice from the Commonwealth. It informed him, bluntly, that he had 19 days in which to pay the overdue excise tax for 1967 on his "BHW--1955-250cc." He thought he'd paid it last February, but the cancelled check was nowhere in the litter of his records, so here he was in the City Treasurer's Office...
...welfare mother, just sentenced to a month in jail, leans over the bench and says to me, "Whenever I come into this court, I feel like I am in another country." This is another country, but we are all here together...
...spectators over her shoulder with one eye, brushing her hair back. It is the coldest look I have ever seen. The old man across the aisle says, "Goddam long hair, has to keep it out of her eyes." He wants her too. Her parents, squat and ugly, a mother with a loaf of bread for a head, stand next to her. She is charged with being idle and disorderly, and her lawyer asks for a continuance, more time to prepare his case...
Alice stayed away from the interviews. "I was dying to see the applicants, but that autonomous band structure was hard enough to understand. A band mother would have killed the enthusiasm." Alice thinks it took the new conductor, James Walker, several months to get used to her, but he liked the band and its mom enough that he has remained at Harvard for eight years...