Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waiting. It was only three or four steps up there, but even as a six-year-old I thought to myself that they were terribly important steps. If I had waited 50 years more I could not have made a truer commitment than I made that day as a child." Afterward, his father warned him that some of his playmates might tease him about it. "If they do," he advised, "tell them Yes, I've been baptized, and I only wish you had been, too." Decision in Hammond. The Adams family moved to a pastorate in industrial Hammond...
First Baptist employs a staff of two associate pastors, an assistant pastor and social-service director, a full-time child expert, an organist-music director, an assistant music director, a day-nursery director, a building superintendent, three janitors, a full-time hostess, four secretaries and assorted part-time help...
Born. To Kirk Douglas (real name: Issur Danielovitch), 38, Hollywood hard guy (Champion, Ulysses), and his second wife, Anne Buydens Douglas, 32: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Peter Vincent. Weight...
What if I do bring you with child...
...nursery gold. But, on the whole, they successfully recreate the nursery-rhyme universe in which the laws of logic, nature and rhyming are suspended. Cruelty can sound carelessly gay, love may be a mere whim, and justice a joke. And yet violence never seems to hurt, love in the child's world is really everywhere, and justice has its own triumphs, as when kings are reduced to thumb-size and beasts are great with wisdom. These verses have, in the words of Poet Walter de la Mare, "their own private and complete little beauty if looked at closely...