Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...father was gassed in World War I...I realize maybe more than anyone else how important this union is. I wouldn't have gotten educated without it...I care about you and I want you to care a great deal about what happens to us on November 7." Bellotti, who is wearing a light easter-egg blue suit smiles cheesily and steps off the stage. Everyone pats him on the back, and he is surrounded by friends who call him Frank, "ole buddy...
...hasn't come out with a strong enough attack plan. He's too honest to tell people he will cut property taxes by $500 million; he points out that prisons are going to get awfully full if you just try and lock everyone up for life. In his typically father-like manner, Hatch tries to explain to King about such things as prison reforms and rehabilitation, but instead he comes off sounding like a softie who doesn't know how to handle problems...
...father and his fellow Greek immigrants been given sympathy and federal money, they might have been the most successful immigrants this country has received...
...lately been expanded and given a larger budget, partly because public concern about battered children has grown dramatically, along with increases in reported abuses. In the state of Massachusetts the subject now seems particularly urgent because of recent cases, especially that of an eleven-year-old Braintree girl whose father sued to get her back from a state-run shelter where she had been placed for her own protection. A judge gave in to his demand. The girl went home on Aug. 1. On Sept. 23 she died in a hospital, apparently after being beaten repeatedly over a period...
When known counseling methods fail, the child should be taken from its parents. With a rueful laugh Belisle recalls that when his own daughter was in first grade and the teacher asked what her father did, she replied, "My daddy swipes kids." Separating child from family is always a horrifying and legally difficult matter. "It's like being a member of the Gestapo," says Belisle. "As bad as you know the parents are, there they stand, in the doorway, screaming 'I love my child.' The neighbors gather, whispering and pointing. The mother starts calling you four-letter...