Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more definitive response that would come in face-to-face meetings with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. When the issue of the troops erupted, the veteran Soviet diplomat was vacationing in the U.S.S.R. He then had to delay his return to Washington be cause of the death of his father. Though Vance asked that Dobrynin return as soon as possible, he was not expected in the U.S. until this week...
Although best known for its camping lines, the diversified company, founded in 1900 by William ("W.C.") Coleman, father of the present chairman, generates 40% of revenues with other manufactured goods, ranging from Hobie Cat catamarans to a new home heat pump that can be converted to an air conditioner in warm weather. In the past five years company sales have risen from $176 million to almost $300 million, and profits have surged from $4 million to $18 million. Coleman now has four plants operating in Wichita, six elsewhere in the U.S. and more than 5,000 employees. The Coleman family...
...Democratica party in 1941, became Minister of Mines on its rise to power four years later. He sought to organize a union of oil-producing nations, a goal realized in 1960; and to nationalize Venezuelan oil, which was done in 1976. In recent years he admitted that as "the father of OPEC, I sometimes feel like renouncing my offspring...
Following tradition, George Rose plays both the father of the three children Peter spirits away and the comical Captain Hook, the archvillain of Neverland and "the swiniest swine in the world." But Rose breaks with tradition by being good in half his assignment and not quite so good in the other: he is a fine father but a wayward villain. He has apparently sought to create the same broad, almost campy mannerisms Cyril Ritchard had in the original version, but, perhaps through bad direction, he has overshot his mark. As a result, his Cap tain Hook is almost effeminate, modeled...
Runcie admits that his Scottish engineer father had a "profound distrust of parsons." He went to Oxford, earning first-class honors in classics, philosophy and ancient history. He did not decide on a clerical career until his final year. During his years as a chaplain and tutor at Cambridge, he married Rosalind ("Lindy") Turner, an accomplished classical pianist known for spirited opinions ("I can't bear a lot of religious pomp and circumstance"). They have two children. Among Runcie's hobbies: breeding prize pigs...