Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pretty good as an engineer of violence-as the evidence clearly showed. During a St. Louis cab strike in 1953, he used a crew of enforcers that included a procurer, a stickup man, a pimp who put his own wife in a bawdyhouse, a Teamster arrested for shooting his mother...
Stranger in the Night. Home from a family picnic one day last week, the Nimers turned in early. Waking in the night, Melvin Jr. rubbed open his eyes, saw standing over his bed a strange man in overalls and white mask. The boy screamed for his mother; Loujean dashed in from the next bedroom. The stranger wheeled, flicked a knife; Loujean staggered to her bed with wounds in breast and abdomen. Slight (5 ft. 7 in.), Dr. Nimer leaped at the assailant, wrestled the man down the stairs, into the kitchen. Beside a telephone the doctor collapsed with chest...
...help me! Call the police! We're being murdered here!" Eight-year-old Melvin, swallowing his fright, took the phone from the trembling hand. Said he, manfully: "Tell the police I'll be waiting downstairs outside for them." Counseled the operator: "No. Stay inside. Stay by your mother...
...more than ever at a loss just what to do about it. Home Secretary R. A. Butler, speaking to a Conservative rally at Saffron Waiden, carefully avoided committing himself to anything. "It has always been the right of British citizenship to come in and out of the mother country at will, and it will need considerable force of argument to alter this policy," he said. On the other hand, Butler noted that even "before these incidents we have been reviewing the volume of colored immigration and what happens to those who come here from our Commonwealth countries...
...mostly history. His life was orderly. Remembered a childhood friend last week: "He had a routine even as a boy. So much time for work, so much for play and so much for study." Donner's parents put him through the University of Michigan because, explained his aged mother: "A boy can't become an honor student unless you pay his way." Fred became an honor student in economics, got straight A's (except one history B), made Phi Beta Kappa...