Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sinner Spring. In Greymouth, New Zealand, police searched two weeks for Escaped Prisoner John David Buckeridge, finally pulled back the covers on a neatly made bed in his mother's home, found Buckeridge stuffed inside the mattress with only his head sticking...
...audience, mostly representatives of Soviet, East German and Eastern European governments, cheered. Said Nikita: "We shall sign the peace treaty. We shall defend peace with all our force. We shall not yield. I have said it all before. But repetition is the mother of wisdom...
...debate, Labor lost, 237 to 293, partly because the Speaker ruled that an M.P. does not carry parliamentary privilege about with him, as a Foreign Office man does his diplomatic immunity. But if Stonehouse himself was not particularly popular on either side of the House, the temper of the mother of parliaments showed during the debate that it was very worried about the direction one of its children, the Central Africa Federation, is taking...
...have been so shaken by the 20th century. Tillich's parents came from the two main strains of the solid, stolid German middle class: the stark, authoritarian Prussians on his father's side (he was a prominent Lutheran clergyman), the sentimental, gemütlich Rhinelanders on his mother's (she was a schoolteacher). Tillich has been acutely aware of the two temperamental traditions at war within him. "In the East [of Germany]," as he has described it, "a meditative bent tinged with melancholy, a heightened consciousness of duty and personal sin, a strong sense for authority...
...slow stages. To speed the process, Prentice experimented with the technique of artificially inseminating a prize cow, surgically removing the fertilized egg, and implanting it in a scrub cow, which merely acts as a live incubator. The calf that is born is a prize animal with none of its mother's bad blood line. Scientists see a time when a farmer will buy a packet of fertilized ova, and in one year obtain from his scrub cows a herd of the finest cattle. To obtain the eggs in sufficient numbers, the donor cows would be fed hormones to make...