Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some villagers had not seen a priest for years. At tiny Tesciguot, 40 men on mules trotted out to meet Father José Maria López, firing their pistols into the air and shouting, "Viva la Iglesia Católica! Viva Jesucristo!" In mass ceremonies, the padre married 240 couples within three hours, aided by the government's special dispensation of the $12 license fee. Bathing in rivers, living on tortillas and beans, Father Jorge Toruno visited 17 towns, spoke to 30,000 people and married 1,139 couples, two-thirds of whom had never been to confession...
Formal religion in Honduras, the priests admit frankly, is in deplorable disrepair. Priests said that some 85% of all Honduran children are born out of wedlock. Three illegitimate children per father is "the rule," but ten is "not unusual." Dismayed when one group of children met with blank faces his question, "How many Gods are there?", he was downright horrified when the local schoolteacher coached in a stage whisper: "Five...
Saudi Arabia's Prince Mashhur, 6, who melted the U.S. in 1957 when his father King Saud brought him to Walter
...answer to that is the answer to everything. Not just to you, to me, but to the country-maybe to the whole world.") But Director Delbert Mann keeps the pace as brisk as Sammy's own. As the heel-hero's idealistic mentor, Al Manheim, John (Bachelor Father) Forsythe looks and sounds like the soft-hearted friend to man he was meant to be. Barbara Rush is Schulberg's "Vassar smarty-pants" scriptwriter down to the last inflection; Dina Merrill plays the conniving heiress with icy charm. The measure of the production's power...
This was clearly reflected in the categorization of this group of girl offenders on the five social factors that comprise the prediction table. Laxity of discipline by father, for example, was found in 75.6 per cent of the girls as contrasted with only 26.6 per cent of all the boys in Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency. The fathers of the girls were indifferent or hostile to them in 87.5 per cent of the cases, as compared with only 59.8 per cent of the boys...