Word: clan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...secretary to return a telephone call, the art of writing letters may seem obsolete, like designing stained-glass windows or working gold. The Adamses traditionally thought otherwise. All of them believed it their duty to posterity to record whatever happened to them, but of all that high-minded clan, only Henry was an artist...
...directors give them all equal weight. A woman, having broken off to join a group of Sicilan-American soldiers she believes are in the area, is killed by the enemy. As she dies, she imagines the young German soldier bending over her to be a member of her own clan, beckoning her to a mythical Brooklyn with the magic snow of a Statue of Liberty souvenir. And when Cecelia finally encounters the first real American soldiers, she cannot speak with them, so they make her balloons out of their supply of condoms to carry back to the group...
...Wrinkle is not the only one she speaks of in freely parental terms. Her fictional characters from a vast family network, many of them reappearing at different stages in their careers, introducing ever widening and ever crisscrossing circles of acquaintances. L 'Engle talks like the matriarch of a vast clan or more precisely their grandmother: she speculates on their moral and psychological growth and debates when and whom they will marry...
Watching the Beanpot is nothing new for the Fusco clan. Father and sons used to go to the Garden, a fact that gives the tournament extra special meaning for the due. The attraction of the Beanpot was one of the reasons both close Harvard over other Ivy League schools. Mark says he rooted for the Crimson throughout his youth "for no real reason." has Scott claims he had no favorites and pulled only for the individuals that be knew...
...Huyard clan, who, like most of their Amish neighbors, drive horse-and-buggy rigs and wear homemade black garb, has cleaved to its faith and offered the accused killer forgiveness. As he painted a shed on his hilltop property, Isaac Huyard cited the Bible: "Resist not evil, but overcome evil with good." David E. Huyard, 75, Naomi's uncle and the family patriarch, suggested that the murder is symptomatic of a growing rebelliousness among Amish and Mennonite youth, who are taught to live peacefully and according to the Bible. "We're being tested and tried in many different...