Word: children
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were losing sight of original Doukhobor tenets and becoming worldly and materialistic. Unlike other British Columbia Doukhobors, the new community stressed the old precepts of non-violence and communal sharing of all property, including husbands & wives. Its ruling elders decreed that until the colony was economically self-sufficient, no children should be born to any member...
Near the end of last year, the colony had ten cows; 50 of its 320 acres had been cleared for vegetable gardens and 300 orchard trees had been planted. The elders met, decided to lift the ban on children. In July, husky, unmarried, 36-year-old Florence Berikoff bore the first child, a boy. It was, said Colony Spokesman Joseph Podovinikoff, "the first free motherhood" based on 400-year-old Doukhobor principles...
Baseball's immortal Ty Cobb, 62, who was divorced by his first wife two years ago after 39 years and five children, was all set to try again with Frances Cass, fortyish, twice-married mother...
...Children, unlike adults, nearly always need insulin at first. But even they need less than 20 units a day, Somogyi holds...
...farmer by profession," says Bishop O'Hara. He was born 68 years ago in a family of eight children on a farm near Lanesboro, Minn. After a chaplaincy in World War I, he was assigned to Eugene, Ore., where he founded the Na tional Catholic Rural Life Conference to promote Catholicism in rural U.S. Today the conference has 10,000 members and operates on a yearly budget of about $30,000. Explained Bishop O'Hara last week...