Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders of a strike, jailing them summarily along with dozens of others who had dared to criticize the government. To prison went the respected Dr. J.B. Danquah, Nkrumah's own mentor in the original independence movement, and young Joe Appiah, a politician who is married to the daughter of Britain's late Sir Stafford Cripps. Peggy Cripps Appiah was ordered to leave the country immediately; later the government backtracked, announced it merely wanted to pay her way back to England if she and her children wanted to leave...
...last spring left a Turner, a Gainsborough and a Reynolds to Washington's National Gallery of Art-came nine paintings worth $500,000 to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, including two Renoirs, a Monet, two Romneys and Van Dyck's portrait of Charles I's daughter, Princess Mary (just prior to her 1641 marriage to Prince William of Orange at age nine...
...more apathy and disinterest than propriety in their failure to notice restrictions upon their freedom--an apathy bred, more likely than not, by a considerable increase in wealth since the Communists took over. True, politics seem to be discussed to some extent in private circles as the daughter of an important Zagreb factory manager assured me in Vienna. But, in the same discussion, she mentioned in a nonchalant (sort of "well, of course, Ike is a bit senile") tone, that she is not in the least a Communist but rather a socialist. Opposing the Communists is like opposing the Republicans...
...years after she was properly introduced to international society with a $250,000 blowout at the Country Club of Detroit, and following art classes in Florence, Charlotte Ford, 20, self-starting daughter of Automaker Henry Ford II, came to Manhattan for the best of everything. Hired to help separate the chic from the gauche for the prestigious decorating firm of McMillen Inc., the shapely new Ford breadwinner will toil a five-day (9t05) week, room with two friends in an upper East Side apartment. "Miss Ford," announced her socialite boss, Eleanor Brown, "will have equal rank with our staff members...
...shown in cinema's stock petting situation. Later that night the heroine's stupid, insensitive, greedy, cunning, smarmy, gabby, hypocritical, vicious and even fat old slob of a mother (Audrey Christie), a living list of everything lousy that has ever been said about womanhood, reads her daughter a puritan's primer of sexual misconceptions: "Boys don't respect a girl they can go all the way with. Anyway, no nice girl has those feelings...