Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strapping Germans. "Claude," his mother whimpered, "don't you think that tomorrow we should go to see the doctor again?" The son struck her angrily. He jumped up to get his Mauser, began to clean and polish, clean and polish. He was a marksman, proud of his success in shooting competitions. When World War II broke out, he had eagerly joined the French army. But all spring and summer in 1940, he marched endlessly over the roads of France, without so much as seeing an enemy to fire at. He returned to Calais to look with the eyes...
...police took him back to his garden to see the body of Aime Mille, police inspector and one of his callers, whom he had killed. The doctor, to whom his mother had taken him from time to time, had called Claude sane enough. But the doctor had not foreseen, as Claude had, that dreadful things can happen...
...time, it looked like a fine game to six-year-old Mike Rector and his two playmates. Whooping it up as cowboys & Indians, the playmates tied Mike up in a nearby garage, bound his feet and set fire to him. By the time his mother had smothered the flames, 70% of Mike's sturdy little body was deeply scarred. At Washington's Casualty Hospital, Chief Surgeon Joseph Rogers Young took one look and told Mrs. Rector that her son probably could not live until morning...
...weeks Mike's parents shared a 24-hour vigil by his bedside. His father gave up his job as an auto repairman, his mother turned over the care of her other five children to a social worker. The hospital set up a special kitchen so that Mrs. Rector could cook the protein-rich eggs and hamburgers her son required to build up his ravaged tissue, coax him into eating...
...parents was 6½-year-old Jeff. He told the investigators: "When they punish me and whip me I want to slam the door and break things and run away and get out. But I can't ... I can't do nothing to my father and mother. I just can't. I just want to get out. But I can't. I get sick. Then my mother brings me stuff and my daddy does, too, to make me better." Eddie, going-on-five, was gleeful when he reported : "When I'm sick my daddy...