Word: affectionate
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> Greta Starks was 24 when she acquired a married admirer of 55 who became virtually her sole means of support. For five years, Greta's great and good friend in Detroit showered her with furs, furniture, a new car, a weekly allowance and cash enough to buy a house...
The Keyes literary style, which is as smooth as clabber, is to hook connective tissue to a lavish collection of cliches. No doubt the hundreds that occur in her book have been worn even smoother by constant use. "Unseemly behavior," "ulterior motive," "the bond of affection," "spread like wildfire," "fraught...
Despite his attraction for women and young people, Fay recalls, Kennedy before his marriage had no great affection for very young children. He never became a political baby-kisser. During the 1960 campaign, after a mutually cool encounter with Sally Fay, 4, his goddaughter, Kennedy deadpanned: "I don't...
At least four-fifths of the 76-member pontifical commission on birth control favors a change in the Roman Catholic Church's traditional prohibition against mechanical and chemical methods of birth control. Ending three years of study on the question, the commission last week presented its findings to Pope...
"I love neighborhood characters," he says. And his writing continually reflects his affection for widely assorted types. There was the winsome old lady who wandered out daily for two quarts of beer, and deftly navigated icy winter streets by sliding from parked car to telephone pole to parked car. Then...