Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like it. I like to be with my husband," said Mrs. Maxwell Taylor. But she, as well as Westmoreland's wife and three children, was ticketed for departure along with the rest. "We don't want to go," said Westmoreland's 16-year-old daughter Katherine as she bade friends farewell at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport. When a teen-aged acquaintance taunted Katherine that the move was her father's fault, she bristled: "It is not. It's the fault of Lynda Bird's father, not mine...
Next day Madras was quiet, but violence flared in Bengal and the former French colony of Pondicherry. Indira Gandhi, daughter of the late Jawaharlal Nehru, said that Shastri was ready to compromise, and the Law Ministry was reportedly preparing a draft proposal for presentation next week to the chief ministers of India's 16 states. That would not necessarily end Shastri's troubles. Hindi fanatics might well generate an even more violent whirlwind if their dream of language supremacy is shattered...
...place of his legal wife Rachele. It was in Clara's company that Mussolini was shot and hung by the heels by vengeful partisans. Italy's late Communist Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti left his wife to live openly with Comrade Leonilde Jotti; the couple even adopted a daughter. When Togliatti died last summer, Leonilde marched behind the coffin, while Signora Togliatti got lost in the crowd...
After Mrs. Sillan was strangled and her 14-year-old daughter, Gail, was raped, the handyman fled to Soperton, Ga., where he was captured. With Miller safely in jail, a Connecticut county detective and a Westport police sergeant went to Soperton and examined the suspect's car without taking the time or trouble to ask his permission or obtain a search warrant. When the car was brought back to Connecticut, it was examined again-still without a warrant. The upholstery was crawling with samples of Gail Sillan's blood and hair. Despite defense objections, that evidence was admitted...
Compared to his own "burdened" education, Professor Gerschenkron felt that his children's American schooling had been far superior. "I'm a great admirer of good American secondary education. My daughter learned fewer facts than I did, but they learned how to work, and even more important, how to doubt. It's up to the university to fill in the actual gaps, and this is one justification for the General Education and interdisciplinary programs...