Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said. Indeed, the carnage left in the wake of the fireballing metal fuselage gave mute testimony to that. Scraps of clothing hung from telephone poles. Parts of a briefcase were found here, fragments of computer printout papers there, a pair of shattered glasses elsewhere. At St. Augustine High School, Father Anthony J. Wasko feared that the falling plane would plow into his school and the 575 boys attending it. When the airliner missed, he ordered his students to prepare the gymnasium as a first aid center. It became a temporary morgue instead...
...multiple sclerosis, which is a long row to hoe. We never expected him to make it through high school. But he did, and with honors," Cleveland's father said yesterday. "At Harvard there was a wonderful bunch of people who were his friends, and I really don't know how he would have done it without their help...
Through Kerouac's friends, we are shown a troubled man full of ironies and disillusion. But the "Father of the Beats," despite new and radical ideas of how prose should be written, was an exceedingly kind man, and one who firmly believed in things like religion and America. This comes as a surprise to many because of the Bohemians Kerouac portrayed and loved...
...couple of FBI men (the Journal-American had discovered that a German spy was living in the Taft Hotel, and the bureau wondered where the information had come from). "Just wait'll I tell those bastards at school," said Ralph, who had been heckled because his father, being a Hearstman, was held responsible for starting the Spanish-American War. The bastards were more impressed by Paul's Pulitzer Prize...
...time Son Ralph became a published humorist (My Years in the White House Doghouse; Yes, My Darling Daughters), the Journal- American had wrapped its last fish. The son had become more prominent than his father, and the hail-'ellows in Toots Shor's who used to fawn on Paul could hardly remember his name, much less his deeds. But Ralph never for got. Editor Schoenstein died in 1974; it was probably his only instance of faulty timing. For Writer Schoenstein has produced a filial, funny book that Superman would have loved - and that anyone might admire...