Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marriage business reached the beginning of the end. Bowing to increased pressure from physicians, ministers and clubwomen, the state legislature passed and sent on to Governor James Plemon Coleman for signature a more stringent new license law that should shoot out loveland's neon lights and keep rash child brides at home...
...Seoul he built his own orphanage, now supervised by two of his daughters. Back home, he turned the Holt playroom into a bustling office, hired secretaries to deal with requests from potential foster parents. The Holts now keep three bulging file cases: Hopeful ("Letters from people hoping for a child"), Thankful ("A child has been assigned and is awaiting transportation in Korea") and Glad ("The child is in America...
...Kerr children are nevertheless cute in their own way. Christopher, the oldest, is a "slightly used eight-year-old" who is adept at sophistry. "Don't kick the table leg with your foot," Mother warns. "I'm not kicking, I'm tapping," Child replies, and Mother is again foiled...
...takes up safe-cracking." His twin, Johnny, is a victim of the chaos and disorder which exist to be-wilder the precise mind. "Indeed," Mother reports, "if one of the beans on his plate is slightly longer than the others he can scarcely bear to eat it." The youngest child is fortunately only seventeen months old and only gurgles and smiles. His parents nevertheless have great hopes that he will grow up to be as eccentric as the rest of the family...
...Burned Child. In Milwaukee, Willie Winfrey, 33, charged with nonsupport of his divorced wife and three children, told police that he had tried to keep out of her way ever since a 1955 argument with her: "I was scared to go near her because she shot...