Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ground, hundreds had seen the explosion and fire that shook the plane as it climbed off the runway. Rancher Deloss Wilder, who had put his newlywed daughter and son-in-law aboard for a Hawaiian honeymoon, watched the takeoff in horror. "Fire broke out," he said. "Things started falling off-the engine, the wing tip. The plane was still on fire when it disappeared through the pass. I thought it had gone down. It was a terrible thing. The wing just kept getting shorter." Miraculously, neither the engine nor the wing section struck anyone on the ground. The engine landed...
...fairly conventional "cool" style, ballad-like congregational hymns reminiscent of Kurt Weill, choral passages as modal as a 14th century Mass. Florida-born Ed Summerlin began writing jazz for use in churches six years ago, when he poured out his grief at the loss of his nine-month-old daughter in a Requiem for Mary Jo, a jazz setting of the Methodist Order of Morning Prayer. Since then, he has written a score for Episcopal Evensong and is now working with Miller on A Pentecost Cantata...
Money & Truth. Discovered last April 27 among the papers of Royall Tyler, an unsuccessful suitor of John's daughter Abigail, in the archives of the Vermont Historical Society, the new diary contains entries from 1753 to 1758, partly overlapping the previous diary and pushing the saga of John's life back two years to his career as a Harvard sophomore. The discovery shows a younger John Adams, says L.H. Butterfield, editor in chief of the Adams Papers, and "sheds a good deal of light on the character and training of the farmer's son who became...
Twelve years ago his daughter came to him with a fertility chart, asked him what all the graphs and numbers meant. After puzzling over it for hours, Los Angeles Lawyer Maurice Gordon decided that the chart was far too complicated for the average woman to understand, set to work to invent a clock that would do the calculations automatically...
...Stigma. The suit was filed by the father of a mental patient in Manhattan State Hospital on Welfare Island, claiming that the hospital was negligent in not preventing his daughter's rape by another inmate. That negligence, he charged, not only caused his daughter suffering, but a pregnancy that brought forth an infant deprived of "property rights ... a normal childhood and home life . . . proper parental care, support and rearing." For his daughter's suffering, he asked $50,000 in damages, for his granddaughter-now two years...