Word: mum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crashed down the stairs. "Hey mum, I was teacher. Can I have money? Can Kara and I go to the store? I want bubblegum." My mother gave each of them a dime and they walked down the street to the little store. Hand-in-hand with the girl next door, the vegetable went to market...
HENRY OBVIOUSLY arrives at the same conclusion. Although he regains his reason long before those twenty years are up, he keeps mum about it and lets the farce go on. Partly, he really prefers the middle ages (or his view of the middle ages), to the anxiety-ridden twentieth century. Also, being part of recorded history gives him a certain amount of security: he can live in the past and know what to expect instead of living in the present and worrying about the unknown future. But besides all this, Henry feels that he lost his place in the modern...
...wine list is shorter than the menu and what-is-to-be expected in price; ranging from $4.25 for Almaden Granache Rose to $16.50 for Mum's Cordon Rouge Brut...
...Harold Lee who organized and ran the church's vast and efficient welfare system from 1937 to 1959. He now wants to expand the scope of Mormon welfare to include more rehabilitation programs for alcoholics, drug abusers and ex-convicts. The church remains tightly mum about most expenditures, but one sign of prosperity is a new 30-story, $30 million world headquarters recently erected behind the temple. By Mormon policy, all buildings are paid for as they are built...
...statement was his wife Eunice's income from a trust fund that is estimated to amount to several million dollars. Their five children also have trust funds. Were these included, Shriver would emerge as the richest of the candidates. He was following the Kennedy practice of keeping mum about the size of the family fortune...