Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forgotten child of Little Rock and Virginia who is not receiving an education...
Flood or Fire. What he wanted to know, said Kawamura, was why he had been hagridden by bad luck since birth? "My parents died when I was a child; I have no living kin. I never met a girl who would marry me. I am being haunted, but I don't know what my crime has been." He poured out more of his woes: when he got a job, he was either fired or the company went bankrupt; when he tried to be a peddler, no one would buy his combs and bits of ribbon; he had failed...
...Christ child doll-an unbreakable, washable, 9-in. model of the Christ child, packaged in a straw and satin crib with a picture of the Bethlehem manger and appropriate Biblical texts in either King James or Douay versions. Price: $8.00. A "de luxe model with beautiful cathedral background" costs $12.00. The Christ child doll has not been a conspicuous success, despite approval by both Protestant and Catholic authorities. A comparison shopper for Macy's in Kansas City reported excitedly that "the Jones Store has marked Jesus Christ down 50%!" Explained Macy's K.C. manager ruefully: "I guess mothers...
...trouble with Dr. Keele's theory is that Mona Lisa del Giocondo, married at 16, had one child which died shortly before she began to pose for Da Vinci, and there is no clear record that she became pregnant during the four or five years that Da Vinci worked, on and off, at the portrait. Besides, the remarkably similar smile in another Da Vinci master piece cannot be explained the same way. The subject is John the Baptist...
...CHILD OF OUR TIME, by Michel del Castillo. A harrowing, terribly unsophisticated testimony to man's capacity for inhumanity, and a minor masterpiece of its kind. Written as a novel, it reads more like the bitter, autobiographical odyssey of the boy who, at three, saw corpses on the streets of Madrid, experienced the concentration camp's life-in-death during the '30s and '40s, survived the indifference of his own parents, and could still perceive the good in life...