Word: consenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confident note: "There really isn't much to it. Running a house and taking care of four children takes about the same amount of stamina and nervous energy as jerking sodas." When children get out of bounds, Krauss counseled readers, spank them. (With their parents' consent, he did.) A few things went awry, e.g., little Melina sprayed milk over the windows Krauss had just washed, but he fed the family, bathed the baby, made the beds, did laundry and read fairy tales to the children. Reported Mrs. Dion by phone to the city desk: "He did last...
...moved 20 miles to the hospital's morgue, then turned to "the toughest part of my job": telephoning the two families to notify them of the deaths. Dr. Hyatt waited an hour or so for the first shock to wear off, then called back: Would the families consent to having parts of the sailors' bodies taken for the hospital's tissue bank? Both agreed...
...program. All talk of mutiny was quelled by Poujade's threat to resign. "If you want me as active chairman," he said, "you must support me. The day I have to take the scalpel, my hand will not shake. But remember, the surgeon never operates without the full consent of the family." With a shouted ovation, the family gave its consent...
...three years Hoffman plagued church authorities and Sir Thomas' descendants for permission to open the tomb. Last year, amid the storm of controversy that followed publication of Hoffman's book The Murder of the Man Who Was "Shakespeare," consent was reluctantly given. Last week Sir Thomas' tomb was opened. "We found sand. No coffin, no papers-just sand,'' reported the crestfallen Hoffman. Added the London News Chronicle: "Alas, not even poor Yorick...
...meet at the Elbe. Hitler shuffles paper armies, daydreams in helpless fury of destroying the world. A moment later, the six Goebbels children are romping about their Onkel Adolf like pretty puppies. The young captain gets drunk and shoots off his mouth. Himmler offers peace without Hitler's consent. Eva's brother-in-law is shot, on Hitler's orders, as a deserter; and on Hitler's orders a Berlin subway, full of German women and children, is flooded to keep the Russians out of it. Thousands drown...