cleaver
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In the especially nasty autumn of 1954, women in June Cleaver dresses and gas masks protested outside the Pasadena Civic Auditorium.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
By shooting down four MiG-15s in a single fight, “Royce Williams had accomplished what no other American fighter pilot would ever accomplish,” Thomas McKelvey Cleaver wrote in a history of the Korean naval air campaign.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
“The best way to do it was to just pick up the phone and call one of the governors,” Cleaver said.
From Salon • Sep. 12, 2025
“It was just Ward and June Cleaver doing the right thing time after time. You just feel blessed and as good as you can feel to have parents like Jack and Jackie Harbaugh.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2025
This was me at the age of forty, a little bit June Cleaver, a little bit Mary Tyler Moore.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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