Word: breds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Papa!" Cripps's strong sense of social responsibility was born & bred in him. He took to heart the injunction of his mother (who died when he was four) that her children should be "undogmatic and unsectarian Christians, charitable to all churches and sects." He came of a long line of British squires who, from the time of Willmus Cripps in the 12th Century, had been known as champions of the underdog. Stafford's aunt, Beatrice Webb (a sister of Cripps's mother), helped turn the youthful instinct for social justice toward formal socialism. Cripps was born...
...Colorado Rockies, three zoo-bred bear cubs, Solo, Shorty and Blacky, from the Denver zoo, sat up and begged for peanuts when they saw three hunters. The hunters shot them...
...apparently good-natured man with a soft voice, Shahn seems much gentler than his work. To please his wife and three children he lives in a federal housing development in Roosevelt, N.J., and serves as a town councilman. But he is city-bred, and complains that the countryside "looks like Sunday every...
...Emma, bred off the Cape Verde Islands, was first reported by ships on Sept. 11. She was then 800 miles east of the Antilles and traveling toward the U.S. at the rate of 20 m.p.h. From then on, diligent U.S. hurricane-hunters kept track of her every movement...
Olivia Robertson is a well-bred young Irishwoman who has done social work in an improved Dublin slum. Like many other social workers who make copy of their experiences, Author Robertson sometimes commits to print anecdotes and adventures that probably sounded fine at the time but, in type, only seem strained and amateurish, like a genteel effort to make a smutty-faced child blow its nose. The savor of the subject, however, often rises above her polite intentions...