Word: childless
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Wanted: a man or woman about 40 years old, single or childless, with at least a high school education. A reliable employee who has frequent contact with children, perhaps even on the job, and lives in a lower middle-class racially mixed neighborhood. A loner, with few close friends and virtually no sense of humor. Extremely neat. Brought up in a broken home by an abusive mother. May believe it is an act of mercy to kill poor black children and thus remove them from a bad environment. May have expressed condolences to some of the victims' families...
...suffered from leukemia. The Greens were determined to enroll Chad in a Tijuana clinic where he could receive laetrile, the controversial drug scorned by the medical establishment but touted by some cancer patients as a miracle worker. After nine months of treatment, Chad was dead. The Greens were left childless as well as homeless, with criminal and civil contempt charges pending against them in Plymouth, Mass...
...cheeked children. But a long tradition claims that the voters want a close look at every prospective First Family, and that they want any such family to be very familial indeed. No divorced man has ever been elected President, and except for Warren Harding, there has not been a childless President since James Buchanan (1857-61), who was also the only President to remain a lifelong bachelor...
...journey in search of enlightenment is a nonfiction standard. It would take a work of striking originality to break from the pack of aging hippies and victims of mid-life's critical list. This is the work. Nearing 40, with a mother dying of cancer and a marriage "childless and knee-deep in ruin," Bill Barich attempted an "escape into orderliness." He was to find an idea of order at New York and California race tracks, where winners and losers are clearly labeled and bloodlines still count. If Laughing in the Hills were only about horses, it could still...
...analyzes his past by plodding through his grandfather's ledgers and talking it out--shrink/client style--with his uncle, recollects his past and so avoids repeating its mistakes. He renounces his slave and plantation holdings and becomes, with Faulkner's sledgehammer Christian symbolist touches, a carpenter. But Isaac is childless and lacks collective vision anyway, as King observes, "to become the founder himself and to pass on this moral (or aesthetic) vision to anyone else...