Word: fatherness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Annette dancing through my head, I thought of Tricia Nixon, wherever she was sitting. Was she, too, singing Mickey Mouse or was losing proving to be a bad experience for her? Perhaps she was accustomed to winning, and could it have been that she was at Harvard without her father's knowledge? She might have picked up some pretty dangerous thoughts around here. Yet she must still be safe for I hear she gave a crewel embroidery of the Harvard seal to her date after he got into graduate school here. So I stopped worrying about Tricia...
...moments before the same stewardess had been chatting with a handsome executive in the seat in front of me. Both of them had relatives who had been in the Air Force, and they were swapping stories about how many times their fathers had been shot down. With a touch of one-ups-manship, the exec finally ended the conversation by describing how his father had been killed in the Korean War. The stewardess shook her head knowingly and looked back at me. She obviously had my number...
...newspapermen weren't listening. Mike Royko, a columnist for the Chicago Daily News. had the Weathermen pegged as aristocratic dilettantes. "They spoke a combination of Negro slang, greaser jargon, and Marxist slogans, which is a bit hard to do if you have a Ph.D. in Anthropology and your father is a stockbroker...
...prejudiced or anything. I don't pretend to be a son of the American Revolution, because my father came from Italy and my mother from France, but I fought in the First World War. There's a picture of my ship on the wall. Things were different then, There are just too many people moving in here. Let me tell you something. During the last century, thousands of Chinese came to California. The Governor imposed restrictions upon their would have been simply overrun...
...Heading the ball was the first thing my father taught me," Kydes explained. "I remember spending hours just heading a ball against any wall. I still make sure I head the ball for a short while in every practice...