Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the best illustration of how integration is working in Washington lies in dozens of anecdotes cited by Hansen. In September 1954 a white mother tried to transfer her child to another school because of the child's Negro teacher. Persuaded to postpone action for a two-or three-week trial period, the mother became so fond of the teacher-and so proud of her child's progress-that she happily decided to leave him where he was. In a junior high school, a group of boys decided to join an anti-integration demonstration going on in front...
Born. To Roger Gilbert Bannister, M.D., 27, the first four-minute miler (3:59.4), and Portrait Artist Moyra Jacobsson Bannister, 27: a daughter, their first child; in London. Name: Carol Erin Elver. Weight...
Judy's papa-in-law (Salvatore Baccaloni) is a staunch Roman Catholic who considers the child she is carrying to be illegitimate because she and Nick were not married in church. "Whatsamatta?" he bellows. "You don' lika da Pope?" Sure enough, after rollicking through the freshest, funniest, most healthily grown-up comedy that Hollywood has produced in years, Judy finds herself entering a maternity ward in her wedding dress...
...conversation strictly one-way, because talk about railway trains, skyscrapers or factories only bewilders them. Huxley found that the only Western institution the Urubus could appreciate was Queen Elizabeth's coronation, which he was required to enact again and again. Missionaries told the Urubu Indians about the Christ child long ago; but then the missionaries sailed away, leaving Maïr in full possession. Today, only dogs, chickens and ducks are deemed the creations of the Christ child. Everything else is ghosts and spirits-and an impressive ghost gallery it is. Anyang, "the spirit of the dead," walks about...
...boils down to the adage that appearances are deceiving. Charlie, with all his faults, has the courage to look coolly and calmly at Life. Richard, despite all his probity, is frightened of Truth. When Charlie suggests that their revered father drove his wife to suicide and fathered an illegitimate child (Ellen, the girl in the outer office), brother Richard and sister Kathie cry him down, not because they doubt what he says, but because it would be too agonizing to change the image of their father and, more important, of themselves...