Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Snow fell the night before, turning to sleet in the morning. On the White House lawn, most of the 13 Roosevelt grandchildren were out early in their snowsuits, coasting on the gentle slopes...
...Worry." Anything Can Happen is the record of George's 20 years in America. It is essentially a collection of anecdotes such as an immigrant returned to his homeland might tell to his wondering grandchildren. Few books have ever made the U.S. seem so exotic. The stories were written by Helen Papashvily, George's American-born wife, exactly as he told them, with his florid language and his owlish humor carefully preserved...
...Looked forward to toasting the nation in eggnog, and to reading Dickens' Christmas Carol to a family group which would include five grandchildren, Daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, Daughter-in-law Ethel du Pont Roosevelt...
...will be biologically possible for our grandchildren to live in good health for 130 years, said Theodore G. Klumpp, president of Winthrop Chemical Co. The secret: new life-saving drugs. Demanding more solid spending on medical research, he declared: "We have been attacking concrete fortifications with popguns...
...grandchildren lived on the out skirts of the old peoples' world, watching with awe the unchanging routine and deep-set beliefs of Grandmother, Nannie and Uncle Jimbilly. But away from this dying world they danced with the freedom of the new generation around the family graves that Grandmother had arranged among the cypresses...