Word: womans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Giuliano's mother, Maria, is a quarrelsome old woman who has long been in jail for helping him. "Giuliano," said a Palermo street vendor, "is trying to survive only so that he will not give his mother pain and perhaps cause her death by news of his death...
...wish," he said. Replied Nukashook:"Then I must do it myself." Faced with this resolution, Eeriykoot gave in. He persuaded his friend Ishakak to help. They tied the ends of a rope to the ridge pole of the tepee, then sat Nukashook close to the rope. The old woman placed her head in the loop, and her son pushed down on her neck until she was dead...
...autopsy showed that the woman had probably had no more than about three months to live, prompting one official to state privately that her killing "was the humane thing to do." But the inquest also brought out evidence of a criminal offense, "aid . . . in commission of suicide." The government had long known about this Eskimo custom, but never before had it had enough evidence to prosecute...
...American Mother is a perfectly wonderful woman, wrote Café Columnist Paul V. Coates in the Los Angeles Mirror, but most of the time she is also a "perfectly lousy cook." So why all this sentimental drivel about "Food Like Mother Used to Make?" Give him a nightclub table any time and some breast of guinea...
...tanks were full. "This is a marginal firing," warned an Army major. "If it doesn't go off promptly, run for the blockhouse. If it starts to topple, fall flat." Even the Glenn Martin men were pessimistic about this new-design Viking. "She's like a woman," one remarked. "There's nothing wrong with her . . . we just don't understand...