Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rogers' rising importance has never impressed his youngest child Doug, 11. One day Nixon called, and the boy answered the phone. In a little while the President himself called, and Doug again answered. Said Rogers later: "I want you to remember this occasion because it will mean a lot to you some day." Asked Doug: "Did you ever meet Mickey Mantle...
Ghee & Porridge. For several weeks, the vengeful women kept the human lion in their house, feeding it on ghee and porridge, and laying their plans. Then they sent it after the son's favorite niece. The child's mother watched in horror as the thing ran off with her baby in its mouth. All that was found of the child later was a few pieces of skull, her toes, kidneys and some scraps of cloth. The Tanganyika court found both women and Lion Trainer Muhandi guilty of murder. The sorcerer appealed on the ground that...
...performance is Who Do You Wish Was With Us? And Thomas's description of his enormous uncle and the annual masculine booze outing is delightful, as indeed are the slightly self-conscious Reminiscences of a Schoolmaster and The Fight, a very amusing tale of the artist emerging from the child...
...result the railfan never became a dominant figure on the American sociocultural scene. He usually started as a small child who admired the boisterous noises and heavy clouds of smoke generated by the locomotives of some railroad near home. Then he just never grew up, at least as far as railroads were concerned, which is to say he grew up as a railfan...
...light one-year sentence for six years of desertion after he told his story: in 1951 he was granted 14 days compassionate leave to visit his wife and their newborn baby; by the time he was ready to come back, she announced that she was expecting another child; the same thing happened in 1953, and again the next year, and the next, and the next; he finally surrendered to the military police this year upon learning that no child was expected...