Word: dad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earned an M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia, while his father was president of the university. Last week the pen finally proved mightier than the sword for Lieut. Colonel John S. D. Eisenhower, 42. Ending a nearly two-year Army leave of absence to research Dad's unfinished memoir on The White House Years, Young Ike resigned his commission to join Manhattan Publishers Doubleday & Company. Inc. as a nonfiction editor of history and biography. "This was not an easy thing to do," said John, who had only two years to go before qualifying for retirement...
...would not unleash the forces of evil," he cried. "It's a lie. I will follow the training my good Irish mother gave me-and Dad. If I am elected, I will embrace mercy, love, charity, and walk humbly with my God." Not even Daley's best friends really believed him. And on the night of his victory, the freewheeling old politicians fairly danced in the streets. Across Chicagoland flew the jubilant cry of a colorful saloonkeeper and alderman named Paddy Bauler. "Chicago," he roared, "ain't ready for reform...
...pregnant, she is merely awaiting The Experience. While awaiting, she does marvelous things like work in the garden; in her superbly tailored slacks and shirt, she looks jaunty enough for a cruise; nothing could ever make her nauseated. Or she finishes the velvet slippers she is whipping up for Dad; all embroidery done during The Period of Expectancy is performed under the pale light of a cut-glass chandelier, in a full-length chiffon hostess gown, no matter that it's the middle of the day. Or she shows three-year-old Junior the bassinet being readied for Baby...
...told Jonny that when two big round o's get together they look at each other and say 'oo!' and I taught him short a as in cat. Then I figured out sentences-A kangaroo has a hoola hoop. A rat and a fat raccoon. Dad has a bamboo hat. Can I pat a baboon...
Until the fire occurred, the Charles had not missed a performance since it opened six years ago. It has resumed production of O Dad, Poor Dad, a comedy by Arthur L. Kopit...