Word: motherhood
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Senator Kefauver spoke here today. Besides being in favor of motherhood, he looks favorably upon sunshine . . . After the speech, a crowd gathered around, thrusting pieces of paper at him for autographs. I saw one boy hand the Senator his obviously poor report card. He signed (I don't think he even looked at it) right where the boy hoped-in the space for parent's approval signature...
...completely blacked out save for a glimmer of light at her truck. The Wasp had planes in the air; when she began a sweeping 120° turn into the wind to pick them up, she came boiling through the darkness at 27 knots, as full of ferocious and implacable motherhood as some vast and angry sea monster...
...women but that of housewife and mother, felt that higher education was a complete waste of time and effort. And a third group, doubtless composed of the real benighted conservatives of the day, felt that college could only result in rendering [women] unfit or unwilling for marriage and motherhood." After reviewing the statistics, the book concludes : "By and large the Former Coed seems to be doing pretty well at marriage . . . Any theoretical fears that college might make a woman unfit for matrimony seem to be thoroughly dispelled by the facts." As our Georgia reader suspected, however, college women...
...decrees covered everything from beggars on the streets to vigorous land reform. He abolished all titles such as pasha and effendi. He told Syria's editors that 70 newspapers were too many, and when they would not merge, he wiped out 19 of them. He rewarded motherhood: medals for mothers of three, free railroad passes for mothers of nine, and the rating of Grade Excellent for anyone with 16 children. He moved in on Syria's oppressive landlords, many of whose land titles are dubious...
...climax came when he found himself the star guest at the Lord Mayor of London's Guildhall banquet, pumping out, to roars of well-fed applause, an oration on "the virtues of patriotism, religion, and motherhood." "I knew ... I was behaving like a mountebank ... I saw myself as completely insincere . . . And more, I began dimly to discern how much attention I had paid to the wrong things in life, and how little to the right...