Word: child
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throughout the world, which, in a Communist country, meant that Monat had access to political as well as military intelligence and espionage, and presumably knew all there was to be known. Hard-working and trusted, Monat apparently had no trouble last summer getting permission to take his wife and child on a vacation in Communist Yugoslavia...
...Child, behold that Man of Sin, the POPE, worthy of thy utmost hatred...
...Rogues. Charles Greenough Mortimer was born in Brooklyn, the son of a brilliant but unbusinesslike inventor father and a sensible, businesslike mother, who is still alive at 86. A stout boy who learned to fight early because his playmates called him "Fatty," he was an only child and one of a long string of Charles Greenough Mortimers. "I made the mistake once," he says, "of tracing the Mortimers back to England. I got as far as the one who seduced the wife of Edward II and I stopped. They were all rogues...
...Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke-had said so in his diary, which is the meat and bones of The Turn of the Tide. As Brooke saw it, the Americans were military chumps and not always well-meaning ones. His boss, Churchill, was a splendid fellow but really just a child when it came to handling a war. In fact "Brookie" had considerably less trouble with Hitler & Co. than with Allied blunderers...
...Broadway The Miracle Worker. Closed to sound and sight, the mind of the child Helen Keller (Patty Duke) is painstakingly opened by Teacher-Nurse Annie Sullivan (Anne Bancroft) in a memorable, if far from flawless theater piece...