Word: dad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record to 0:22.2. And if his father, Aircraft Plant Guard Charles Sime, has his way, the rapid young man will be a long time slowing down. After his world-record dash last week, Dave had hardly caught his breath when he was talking on the telephone to his dad in Fair Lawn, N.J. "Next time do it faster," was Charles Sime's peremptory order...
...Walter Reilly,' said Velma, looking at Father Fabre to see if he followed her . . . 'Let me taste it, Dad...
...Pint churned up a chunk of ice and batted it down with the heel of his hand. 'By Dad!' he breathed, a little god invoking himself . . . Mrs. Mathers left the room, and returned a moment later whispering that she believed in flushing the toilet before she made coffee. That was the quickest way to bring fresh water into the house...
After World War I three countries remained closed to the Western World and to Lowell Thomas. By 1949, his son explains in the Brattle's new travelogue, "Dad had succeeded in penetrating two of them." Out of this World describes Thomas' assault on the last survivor...
...simply needed a song. The chorus is from a saying my Dad often used. He never saw real money. He was constantly in debt to the coal company. When shopping was needed, Dad would go to a window and draw little brass tokens against his account. They could only be spent at the company store. His humorous expression was, 'I can't afford...