Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are many Jewish orphans looking for a home. When people marry or adopt children, they should stick to their own religion...
Massachusetts, with its current persecution of the Ellises, is back in the Middle Ages. This kind and loving couple are threatened like ordinary criminals because they are Jews and had the temerity to adopt (in good faith) the child of an unwed Roman Catholic mother. Are we really in America, or is the ghost of Hitler now dominating the state's legal and ecclesiastical counsels...
...futile against dangerous tobacco tars. But the Sloan-Kettering Institute's noted cancer fighter, Dr. Ernest Wynder, believes that he can render smoking less harmful partly by making filters more effective, partly by chemically treating the tobacco leaf. It remains to be seen whether the tobacco industry will adopt these means and, if so, whether a smoke will then taste like a smoke or like a laboratory. See MEDICINE, Making Cigarettes Safe...
...year after his enthronement, young Mohammed made his first trip abroad, came back resolved that he must liberate himself from the prison of Koranic tradition, adopt those European ways that would not conflict with what was essential in the Moslem code. When his wife first became pregnant, he went to Paris to bring back a crib, diapers, sterilized bottles, baby scales and a French midwife, explaining: "I want my son's umbilical cord cut in the 20th century manner...
They arrived in Miami last May, determined to stay there and try to adopt Hildy under Florida law. Ellis, who had sold his Brookline dry-cleaning plant, took a $60-a-week job spotting clothes for a dry-cleaning firm, then found a better one covering Florida for two clothing firms. They entered Hildy in a private school, made no attempts to hide their identity. Of Hildy, Ellis says...