Word: mother
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started drifting west in a brand-new Buick Wildcat. He worked his way across the country to New Mexico, taking pictures of real estate for insurance appraisers from time to time. In Albuquerque in mid-1966, a month before his mother's death, he enlisted in the Army. Once in uniform, he was soon recommended for officer candidate school, commissioned a lieutenant and posted to Viet Nam. His elder sister. Mrs. Marian Keesling, of Gainesville, Fla., reports that Calley clothed and fed a little Vietnamese girl; one day he returned to find the child's house bombed and the girl...
...teacher told him that he was an idiot. His first employer told him that he was stupid. His mother-in-law told him that her daughter should have married a doctor. He lost his previous job. Nobody loves him. He doesn't know where he's going in life and wouldn't give you two cents for his future...
...president cites this as the résumé of an ideal prospective employee. Penn Life offers such men an income that fairly often exceeds $20,000 and a smothering of somewhat unusual fringe benefits. According to President Stanley Beyer, 36: "We become the teacher who loved him, the mother-in-law who thinks he is great, the coach who gave him nine letters, the boss who wants to make him president...
Imagine a room full of women trying their hardest to act the way your older sister, mother, or grandmother would act on their best behavior. After I filled out an application, a Harvard faculty wife took my temperature with the slowest thermometer in the world. Every five minutes she checked to see if my temperature had climbed up to 98,6. With an embarrassed smile. she kept putting the thermometer back in my mouth until I finally reached 97,8. The man sitting next to me had been told to "warm up" for 15 minutes when he could not push...
...think there is anything wrong with smoking pot myself," Meg Peterson, the 15-year-old daughter of the Governor of New Hampshire, said as her mother looked...