Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Japanese invaded Malaya, a plain-faced Eurasian woman named Sybil Kathigasu was living in the town of Ipoh with her doctor-husband, Addon, and their four-year-old daughter, Dawn. The Kathigasus moved into the interior, took up farming, and started a "grow more food'' campaign. After a while the Japanese discovered what else the Kathigasus were doing: a radio in Sybil's bedroom picked up information which was relayed to the guerrillas; wounded resistance fighters and British stragglers were sheltered and given medical treatment in their house...
...Japanese caught and tortured Sybil to extract information about the underground. At one point they tied her to a stake and suspended her daughter Dawn over a blazing fire. Dawn shouted: "Mummy, I love you very much!" In the family code it meant that Dawn would not talk and Sybil must not talk either. The Japanese halted the fire torture in time, but they invented others for Sybil: beating, branding, dripping water. By the time a British captain found her at war's end, her skull, jaw and spine had been broken, her legs temporarily paralyzed...
Accompanied by his wife and pretty 17-year-old daughter Dorothy, the governor moved unostentatiously around the town. Then he took off for the Governors' Conference, where he firmly refused to discuss his chances with reporters. A non-partisan conference, said Candidate Warren, seemed to him scarcely the place to talk partisan politics...
Myron C. Taylor, the President's august envoy to the Vatican, also had child trouble. Undaunted by a court defeat last year, a Mrs. Eunice Walterman of Chicago re-entered her claim that she was his illegitimate daughter, this time sued for a round $2 million...
...Avery suddenly called a special meeting of the board in Chicago. Norton rushed back, only to find that Avery had just as suddenly postponed the meeting for three days. Anyway, Norton was assured, the meeting would be a routine one. So Norton decided to pass it up for his daughter's graduation at a private school in Maine...