Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Would he print it if his wife or daughter were raped...
...falling behind on their bills. Richard McClur, 23, and his wife Pamela, 22, owe two months' rent-a total of about $200-on their four-room cabin. They have made no payments since November on their car, speedboat and motorcycle. They feed themselves and their four-month-old daughter on $138 a month in food stamps, supplemented by pork from hogs raised by Pamela's father...
...talking with the daughter of a rich New Orleans man, or the grandchild of a mineowner or the daughter of one of the vice presidents of a New England electronics firm, Coles seeks to and succeeds in portraying those characteristics of the rich which preserve the inequalities of American society. His interviews with the Indians, Chicanos and Eskimos are less directed toward understanding a specific aspect of their lives and are less likely to attract the attention of readers because his writing is not particularly analytical or incisive...
...passed over or under with each pass of the shuttle. Babbage planned to use the same technique to program his machine; instead of the positions of threads, the holes in his cards would represent the mathematical commands to the machine. Wrote Babbage's mathematically knowledgeable friend Lady Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Byron: "We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves...
...visit to Israel, the American feminist stopped by for a chat with Yael Dayan, the novelist and daughter of Moshe Dayan. Surrounded by her children, Dayan talked apologetically of her commitment to the ideals of femininity and motherhood. Says she: "I presented a model of the slaving wife resigned to her fate...