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Word: mothers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...housewife and mother, I find myself still part of an open shop, but I shudder to think that any job I might get could be had only by paying tribute to some power-mad labor leader. Looking at my children, I feel that we must make the right-to-work laws justify the trouble, or we sleeping (almost) free Americans may wake up to find ourselves regretful prisoners of the "liberals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 15, 1958 | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...JOSEPH, PROMISE TO DO MY BEST, TO DO MY DUTY TO GOD AND MY COUNTRY, TO BE SQUARE, AND TO ... Alive Was Kenny Travers, 7, whose mother told a reporter, "I hugged him and hugged him" -whereupon Kenny interrupted, "And you said I can get candy whenever I want ." Two days later police watched understandingly as a man beat his hands against the door of Our Lady of the Angels, crying: "Come on out now, son. I'm out here waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: The Chicago School Fire | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

More than 5,000 cheering blacks, in headgear ranging from French army kepis to straw boaters and Davy Crockett caps, were at the Brazzaville airport to meet him, and even his wizened old mother, after performing a little weaving dance in his honor, fell on her knees before him. As he drove through the streets in his blue-grey Pontiac, his excited fans followed in trucks and jeeps, shooting into the air and shouting, "Olele! Olele! The Abbé has won!" The abbé-Brazzaville's round, smiling Mayor Fulbert Youlou, 41-had just returned from the French Middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLIC OF CONGO: The Unorthodox Abbe | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...known as the Dust Bowl, followed in the footsteps of his basketball-playing brothers Bailey and Henry (Bailey played with the Harlem Globetrotters). Cincinnatti fans fear the Big O may turn pro after this season, but Robertson insists he will play his senior year for the Bearcats. Adds his mother fiercely: "The pros can't touch him. I'll have something to say about that. He's going to finish school first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big O | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...That's right, too," said the girl in the corner seat. "I'm taking this botany course, you know. You wouldn't think that would do you much good, but my advisor says that it helps a lot with your own children or if you're a Den Mother or something. You can tell them all the various flowers and trees and stuff when you're out on a walk...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Practical Education | 12/12/1958 | See Source »

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