Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indonesian case before the U.N. Security Council simmered down. A Dutch representative described the American attitude: "At first, the U.S. reacted like a New England parent surprised by a young man trifling with his daughter's honor. Now the State Department's attitude has changed. It became: 'What are we going to do about the baby...
Babe Ruth died, and true grief dropped into public bathos; a coal miner's daughter nicknamed "Bobo" married into the Rockefeller clan; Manhattan's nickel subway fare went to a dime; the year's most popular book on human behavior was by a zoologist named Kinsey...
...scholars his theory that the Diderot manuscript was still in existence somewhere. One day a scholar casually remarked that he thought he might have seen the Dream while going through the family papers of a certain Baron Jacques Le Vavasseur, Diderot's direct descendant. Apparently, Diderot's daughter had passed on a whole batch of papers to her descendants. The family had let only two untrained amateurs take a look: it thought the less said about Diderot's escapades and radical ideas the better. Dieckmann got only a curt refusal when he wrote the baron...
Divorced. Robert Walker, 30, cinemactor (See Here, Private Hargrove; One Touch of Venus); by Barbara Ford, 25, daughter of Hollywood Director John Ford; after six weeks of marriage; in Los Angeles...
...kind of man "who always chose that another might die so that he might live." When the Japs came, he cooperated; when Brunner came, he was kind to him. In him, Brunner came to see what he too might become if he stayed on. Andersen had a daughter; she was very beautiful and the next 15 pages are very predictable. When an American advance party hit the island to prepare for an invasion, Brunner joined the troops...