Word: dad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later he began to wonder when he found that a check he had sent his son in February had been cashed in San Francisco March 11. Then came a letter from his son-the handwriting was unmistakably his-dated March 31. "Well, Dad," it said, "I am finally in a position where I can write you again . . . I'm on a different ship...
Magic Name. Though he is the spittin' image of his father, down to the unruly cowlick and the twangy voice, Will Jr. has not inherited his dad's gift for the newsy quip, the folksy gag. He has gone in for sterner stuff. Naturally hesitant to live in his father's shadow, for years he called himself Bill. He is not unmindful of the political value of his name and appearance. (For the campaign Bill has become Will Jr.) But as the earnest publisher of the Beverly Hills Citizen, Will Jr. has made a quiet name...
...lists were growing. As the totals mounted, more & more people came closer to the war. The men who were dying were husbands, sons, fathers-the boy who used to work at the corner grocery, the young lawyer who took down his shingle and joined the air forces, the Dad who had spent a couple of weeks each summer with the National Guard...
...Dear Mother and Dad...
...which forbade him to sit on Sundays. Sometimes he started again at 12:05 a.m. Monday. He examined 6,000 witnesses, heard 20,000,000 words of testimony, indicted 500 men & women. Of those brought to trial, 94% have been convicted. Says modest Judge Ferguson: "My old Dad used to say, 'Even a blind hog will find an occasional acorn if he just keeps his nose down...