Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like the Job." At 70, Bill Leahy works seven days a week, invariably carries a pouch home with him, has little relaxation outside of playing with his two grandchildren...
...dishonor." Of her second husband, handsome, upright and slender, with trembling hands and' bushy eyebrows, Mrs. Jardine said: "He was a passionate ornithologist-that is, he knew all about birds." She ended the chapters of her conversations with such studied, melodramatic disclosures as: "I have never seen my grandchildren...
...walked to the black podium, bareheaded and in a blue suit. He was grave and solemn. His big shoulders and his suntanned face with the resolute jaw were all that was visible to the crowd below. Immediately below the portico were 7,806 invited guests, including the Roosevelt grandchildren (see cut);* in the Ellipse stood 3,000 more. The President gazed at the crowd, then lifted his eyes to the Washington Monument, and to the Jefferson Memorial beyond...
...Elliott's Elliott Jr., 8; Princess Ragnhild of Norway; Elliott's David, 3; Prince Harald of Norway; John's Anne, 2, and Haven, 4; Anna's John, 5; James's Kate, 8; Elliott's Chandler, 10. Grandchildren there but not in picture: Anna's Sistie, 17, and Buzzie, 14; James's Sara, 12; Elliott's William Donner, 12; Franklin Jr.'s Franklin III, 6, and Christopher...
...Greek nods (mind) and sphere. Said he: "The noösphere is a new geological phenomenon on our planet. In it for the first time man becomes a large-scale geological force.... Wider and wider creative possibilities open before him. It may be that the generation of our grandchildren will approach their blossoming. . . . Fairy-tale dreams appear possible in the future; man is striving to emerge beyond the boundaries of his planet into cosmic space. And he probably will...