Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Britain joined with France and Israel in the 1956 attack on Egypt. India violently opposed the invasion, and Canada, noted a British newsman, felt as though it had found a "beloved uncle arrested for rape." In this crisis Canada put preservation of the Commonwealth above affection for the mother country, and at the United Nations joined the U.S. in pressing for a ceasefire. With Australia and New Zealand backing Britain, Canada's stand reassured the Asian members of the Commonwealth, may well have prevented a disastrous split between the group's white and nonwhite members...
...Prime Minister. But though pleased that "in no nation in the world has the birth rate been cut so drastically in such a short time," she was distressed by the fact that few parents used contraceptives, instead relied on abortions, which are now legal and cost $2.78 if the mother can show that otherwise her health might be harmed, or that "unbearable" economic hardship might result. Margaret Sanger argued that too frequent abortions are also injurious to health, and Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi agreed. In the past year alone, there have been 1,500,000 abortions in Japan...
...Generation of Murderers." Occasionally, the Soviet anti-American campaign slips to patent idiocy. A 65-page pamphlet entitled "Their Morality" carries the publishers contention that it portrays "bourgeois morality in its true likeness," then opens with prize exhibit No. i: Denver's Jack Graham, who sought his mother's insurance in 1955 by filling her luggage with dynamite, killed her and 43 other plane passengers. Graham was executed for the crime-a fact omitted in the account. To show that bourgeois morality prepares for war, the pamphlet falsely quotes U.S. Draft Boss Lewis Hershey: "We need a generation...
Crust. In Oshawa, Ont., Newton Morton was fined $10 for throwing a blueberry pie in a man's face, despite his plea that "the pie was fresh, and my mother baked...
...were slow. In the early winter of 1901, while Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines limped toward Broadway, 21-year-old Ethel Barrymore was sick with fear. And she suffered doubly because she had been born to the stage. Her father, Maurice Barrymore, was a matinee idol. Her actress mother, Georgiana Drew Barrymore, and her uncle, John Drew, two of the topflight actors of the day, could trace their lineage back to the strolling players of Elizabethan England. Anxious not to disgrace the family, Ethel asked herself over and over again: "Why am I doing this...