Word: dad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four-player teams from competing schools try to beat each other to the punch in answering such questions as: 1) Who was the head of state that the Roundheads beheaded? 2) What 17th century philosopher can be associated with a whale? 3) In ancient Greece, who could call Xanthippus "Dad" and Zeno "Teacher"? 4) Nellie Bly was the "other woman" in a famous triangle-name the couple she broke...
...prison's Roman Catholic chaplain, was permitted to enter Cherry Hill to hear confessions and give Communion to some of the hostages. The prison physician was allowed to minister to a sick guard. Pretty Toby Green, 16, made a telephone call to her besieged father. Excerpts: Toby: Hey, Dad? Green: Oh, Toby! . . . Toby: What are you doing?, Green: I just want to get out. Toby: Dad, that's silly. How can you get out that way? Green: Toby, Toby, you know Dad. Toby: I know you. Green: I'll get out! . . . Honey, Toby, honey, I am awfully...
...last week Ethel Niles Sheppard, white-haired and handsome at 64, locked herself in her bedroom and fired a bullet from a .38 caliber revolver into her brain. She left a note to her son Stephen, with whom she was staying: "I can't manage without Dad. Thanks for everything.−Mother." By court order Sam Sheppard was granted the privilege−unusual for a convict−of attending his mother's funeral...
Hold Your Horse? This low-pressure Gobeldygook comes naturally to George. "It's interesting how I got to be called George Gobel," he told TViewers on one show. "One day Dad called all 16 of us children into the living room and said, 'O.K., now, which one of you kids wants to be George Gobel?' I wanted to be Douglas Fairbanks Jr. But that was already taken...
...been presented more or less explicitly. For example, in a story called Masculine Protest, a boy runs away from home after a quarrel with his mother and returns the next day. Yet he has solved one of the main problems of childhood by the fact of running away: "Dad too had once run away from home, and for some reason--perhaps because the bank was shut, or because he was hungry, tired, and lonely--he had come back, but their protest remained to distinguish them from all the others who had never run away. It was the real sign...