Word: borning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Being born too soon is one offense you simply can't help," Morgan said. "Although I regret leaving Harvard, this will be sort of an adventure," he added. Morgan is now 71 and the compulsory retirement age of 66 had been waived for five years in his favor...
...Bavaria," says Peter, "the king used to give 100 marks to a family that had seven boys born in a row. Also, the king would be godfather of the seventh boy. My mother had six sons, and when the seventh was coming, they thought it would be a boy, but it turned out to be a girl. So papa said, 'Well mama, I guess we have to try again.'" Unfortunately, the second try resulted in a similar buildup, and a similar let down...
...Augarten says, that an a Jew he feels an allegiance to Israel similar to that an American-born Irishman would have felt towards the IRA in 1922. He would like to return to Palestine, but not to live, although he is very hopeful for the land. "They ought to be able to hold their present boundaries," he says. He has worked with a tent-housed agricultural group in the desert, and knows that if the country can support the population of three million the Jews are planning. The biggest problem today is handling the huge group of immigrants recently absorbed...
Promptly at 9:05 p.m. the chairman got things off to an early start. He introduced himself. This took 20 minutes: time to allow the hall to fill, and for him to enumerate his attributes. The most important of these was that he was born in East Cambridge, was brought up in East Cambridge, went to school in East Cambridge, and still loves East Cambridge and what East Cambridge stands for. In Cambridge this is all good...
...born one day In the county of Clay And came from a solitary race...