Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...race at the Great Wall. He won, then stood next to a group of bemused Chinese sailors to have his picture taken. "Do you know you are posing with an imperialist?" he joked. Not so, said the well-coached sailors. "We are having a photograph taken with the polar-bear tamer...
That ad, published last year in three Michigan college newspapers, drew more than 200 responses. Almost all were from young white women willing to accept artificial insemination and bear a child for the advertisers, a Dearborn, Mich., couple in their early...
...said she wanted to be a good Samaritan, described herself as "white, 23, blonde, green-eyed, slow to anger, strong-willed." Another was a medical student who asked to have her tuition paid for a year. A third was a 28-year-old mother of two who wanted to bear another child, but could not afford to keep it. One letter came from a man who volunteered his girlfriend. There was one drawback to the whole enterprise, however: its legality was questionable...
Knowing that Michigan law forbids the sale of babies, Noel Keane, the Dearborn attorney who placed the ad for the childless couple, checked with Wayne County juvenile court for an informal opinion. Judge James Lincoln said yes, a volunteer could legally bear a child for the couple to adopt, but no, the law did not allow the payment of fees to the mother for the service. Suddenly the reservoir of surrogates dried up. Explains Keane: "We don't have any of them now. As it turns out, all of them were interested in money...
That was hard to bear. For nearly two decades, Wallace had been an inescapable irritant in American politics, like a fly determined to become part of the ointment. He had first served as a state senate page at the age of 16, but he seemed to have few prospects then. He sold magazines from door to door. After a stint in the Army Air Force, he won a job as an assistant attorney general, then as a state legislator, always feisty, eager to speak his piece. Elected a circuit judge in 1953, he told the courthouse boys that...