Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first transports were back in Leopoldville. They were chockablock with living, dead, dying and wounded. They kept coming all day: crisp white nuns and an old priest in a black Homburg; two little girls, bloodstained, holding tightly to their dolls; a mother and daughter in pajamas and no shoes; a baby with its feet sticking out of an airline...
...curbed the arrogant Nehru temper, of which she has her full share, and conducted herself with a humility she had never displayed as India's aggressively "neutralist" ambassador to Washington and Moscow. On the hustings, she gestured toward her blue-rinsed grey hair, described herself as a daughter returning home in her old age, and asked plaintively: "If you fail to give me room, where can I go?" While the Socialists bustled about the countryside in a car preceded by a motorcyclist bearing a red flag, Madame Pandit toured the villages on foot and spent the last 25 days...
Candidate Pandit won easily, 110,-548 to 52,528. It is expected she will soon join her niece and Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri...
...Gall All Over." Success in that career came early because Howard worked hard to get it. Whatever he got, he owed to no other man. The son of an Irish railroad brakeman and a tollgate keeper's daughter, he never went beyond high school. As a youth in Indianapolis, he rose before dawn to carry the Star, delivered the News every afternoon. In between, he filed so many space-rate stories for the News that the paper put him on a reporter's salary ($8 a week) to save money. Ambition led him to St. Louis...
...Abysses is unwittingly hilarious, an amateur Grand Guignol about a pair of sleazy, sullen chambermaids running amuck in Bedlam. When they are not dancing or screaming, they stab the furniture with hatpins, chip the plaster, bring in termites, pulverize the best china, wallop their mistress, throw fish at her daughter, uncork the wine vat, scrape rubbish off the floor and dump it into the master's soup. "What did you put in the closet?" asks one. "The chicken droppings," replies the sister...