Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bother You? A few weeks after the Ellises took the first legal steps to adopt the baby privately (i.e., not through an adoption agency), Hildy's mother, Marjorie McCoy, then a nursing trainee, demanded that Hildy be taken from the Ellises and put in a Catholic institution for adoption by a Catholic family. She claimed she did not know until after she signed the adoption papers that the Ellises are Jewish (they say she knew). At no time did she say that she wanted to keep Hildy herself...
...constitutes an example of the problem that is causing many U.S. officials to lose faith in the U.N. I agree with Senator Knowland that a double standard on international policy may make the U.S. and the U.N. look as two-faced as the mythological Janus, but the U.N. should adopt some kind of "speak loudly and carry a big stick" policy with some of these countries which are causing it to lose prestige in the world, and which may eventually cause it to meet the same unfortunate termination which the old League of Nations...
...criminal, later released without trial. "When I found out I was not to be indicted or hanged," he said, "I began to think about the rest of my life as a bonus to be spent wisely. I decided that Japan must have real democracy and never again adopt dictatorship by anyone-military or non-military-and never yield to extremists-Communists or fascists...
...Dartmouth will have to adopt a "wait-till-next-year" attitude which is often a rather unrealistic one but which, in this case, has a strong justification. The top four players from this year's squad, all of whom showed very well against their Harvard opponents, will return next season, as will two other members of the first nine...
Louis M. Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Fellowships, said last night he would have to adopt a "wait and see" attitude regarding the status of William Worthy Jr., Nieman fellow presently in Budapest...