Word: mum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with decorations for heroism, the beloved dictator smiles. He raises his arm in a smart, left-handed salute. Suddenly his mother begins banging a spoon against the banister downstairs: "Hey, your boiled egg is stone-cold." All right, luv. He goes to breakfast, gets ready for work, listens to Mum, Dad and Granny whining platitudes until he turns from his shaving mirror just long enough to mow them down with a tommy...
...wanted to retire, Ralph Houk looked like the right man for that job, and with Yogi taking over on the field the Yankees could at least expect a rise in attendance. Even if they lost, Yogi was sure to tickle the turnstiles. For once, Berra was speechless. He kept mum about it all year long, just standing there in the first-base coach's box "observing," as he put it, "by watching." A couple of other clubs-the Boston Red Sox and the Baltimore Orioles-had ideas about Berra, too. The Yankees politely told them to relax...
...delinquent pose she adopted to protect her secret soul is fairly new in this genre. She is adept at putting the false comic nose on the face of authority, and all get a good laugh from the schoolmaster who told her she was "a long streak of nothing," from Mum, and from the dear silly nuns who had her in charge for a while. We learn without astonishment that they were more pious but not so clever as little Shelagh. But did she really believe that they slept at night hanging upside down from the rafters? And did she really...
Throughout, Christine never forgot the gravel pits or Mum. When she took temporary refuge in Spain last March, Christine sent a postcard home. "Marvellous place," she wrote. "Lots of nice-looking men. Don't worry, having a ball." Since then, the ball has continued, more or less, and so has fame. At the Cassius C!ay fight at Wembley Stadium last week, there was a sudden flurry as a glamorous woman swept to her ringside seat. "Is that Christine Keeler?" asked a spectator. "No," said his neighbor, "only Elizabeth Taylor...
Though Boldrini kept mum about...