Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest headaches. The old women can't build a modern kolkhoz; that's why he had to argue for weeks to break down the resistance of schoolgirls. And then, if the girl was ready to sign up, her mother would hit the roof. 'What? My daughter muck around in the manure! Is that why my husband and I sweated our guts out and educated...
Last month two Israeli agents were arrested in Switzerland after they allegedly put pressure on the son and daughter of Dr. Paul-Jens Goercke, a West German electronic-guidance expert employed at Military Factory 333. As Swiss police told it, the agents persuaded Heidi Goercke, 25, and her brother Hans, 21, to cross the frontier from Freiburg, Germany, and warned them that they must talk their father into coming home from Egypt or else he would face "serious" trouble. Eavesdropping on the conversation, forewarned Swiss detectives tossed the Israeli operatives into jail, charged them with coercion and operating illegally...
...Daughter Kattrin is a war-victimized mute with a desperate love of children. In Brecht's mordant view, kindness is voiceless in the world. Kattrin performs the only noble and impassioned act in the play when she mounts a platform and beats out a drum tattoo warning a sleeping town of ambush. A single musket shot silences her. Zohra Lampert detonates this episode shatteringly after having made her Kattrin an intaglio of forlorn brooding poignance. As Anne Bancroft cradles her daughter in marble stillness, the scene has the desolating sadness of a Piet...
...Fritz Thyssen's widow, Amelie, now 85, proved resourceful: she found loopholes in the Allied decartelization decrees and gradually welded together much of the old steel dynasty. From her Bavarian castle, Frau Thyssen today controls 52% of Phoenix stock and 12% of August Thyssen stock; her daughter, Countess Anita de Zichy-Thyssen of Buenos Aires, holds another 39% of Thyssen stock. The countess thus would presumably inherit a majority share of both...
Born. To Martin Luther King Jr.. 34. Negro civil rights leader, and Coretta Scott King. 35; their fourth child, second daughter; in Atlanta...