Word: dad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dad, I knew I had to get out or get the sleeping bag. [The temperature went down to 12°.] But I was weak and I couldn't get loose. Once I got almost turned around to get the bag. But I was too weak. I almost got out one time-I don't know how long after. Then I fell asleep again...
...nightclub in Paris on a Sunday. The King toasted his daughter in champagne. A helicopter brought thousands of birthday greetings. Britain wondered (and doubted) whether Margaret would settle down. Said an East End docker last week: "I bet she's a handful to her mum and dad...
...just Hyde Park friends of the Roosevelts, come down to look after them," Husband ("Dad") Nesbitt blandly told the world. (Mrs. Nesbitt had often baked and cooked on big occasions when F.D.R. was governor of New York.) Mrs. Roosevelt was waiting in the Red Room when the Nesbitts arrived, and she said: "I'll show you over"; and so "we started out together at a trot, the way she always goes about things . . . We kept on bumping into Roosevelts ... I can't recall how many [but] they all seemed glad to be there . . . Then we reached the kitchen...
...just a touch of sophistication. The Phillies signed him up three years ago, after his one semester in junior college, for a bonus of $4,500. "I was just a kid then," he says, "and didn't know what the score was." Last week, after taking his Dad to Chicago's 606 Club (a striptease joint), he remarked offhandedly: "I've seen better in Boston...
...although "Captain Eddie" gets beaten every time he takes his son out for a weekend match nowadays, Rick explains that his dad still has the only hole-in-one in the family to his credit...