Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sixty-five-year-old Charles Davis, who had paced nervously below his children at every performance of their high-wire balancing act, was ready when it happened in a Miami circus tent. As his son and daughter lost their balance and toppled, Davis hurled himself forward and cushioned their fall with his body. His children survived with back injuries; he suffered only bruises...
...Seattle, Dean Rothrock took his five-year-old daughter for a walk with her aunt. The child was between them, holding both their hands, but it was a dark, rainy night, and neither saw the open manhole. The child fell through, tearing a ring from her father's finger. Eight miles away, where the sewer empties into Puget Sound, her body was found in the sand...
...Ireland a generation ago would have dared contradict the smitten heart of Poet William Butler Yeats. Like the fabulous bird of Greek myth, the phoenix about whom he wrote in these lines was unique, alone of her species. Born in London, the daughter of an aristocratic Irish officer, tall, stately Maud Gonne (pronounced Gun) was educated in a Paris convent and made her debut in glittering St. Petersburg. She was a daring horsewoman, a thrilling amateur actress, a painter and a gifted linguist. With a Junoesque figure and chestnut hair that fell well below her knees, she was, they said...
...Shanghai woman asked her college-educated daughter to explain what elections were all about. She was told: "For instance, the alley is dirty. You elect a man who will speak of it before the National Assembly and have it cleaned...
...stoop-shouldered doctor hurried down the steps to a dingy basement, borne of his Negro patients were already waiting for him. An ex-G.I. fidgeted in his chair, muttering: "Daid. . . . He's daid." A woman waited stonily, clutching her daughter with one hand and a note from school in the other. The doctor briskly pulled on a white coat and shot a rapid greeting at his youngest patient, a moon-faced ten-year-old: "Hello, Midgie, I hear you got a new football for your birthday." The boy grinned...