Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lyndon's death, she continues, "has made me know that all those things I've laid by to do I must set about doing." For one thing, she is determined now to spend more time with her children and grandchildren. "I keep thinking: 'Don't put it off; time goes so fast.' I've been given a second time around with my grandchildren, and they are the funniest little set of people I ever knew." Already she is looking forward to family gatherings at the ranch. "I know it will be changed...
...wasn't her usual gig, but Lena Home, 55, got turned on to Sesame Street by her grandchildren. There she was, reassuring Kermit the frog and singing Kermit's favorite song, It's Not That Easy Being Green, which is all about having green skin. "It's a highly personal song to me," she explained. "It is the same for me as it is for Kermit...
...each breakfast reader of the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post to his own vision of colonial expansion. This is the age of Cecil Rhodes and Joseph Chamberlain. The exuberant correspondent foresees a "brave system of state-aided - almost state-compelled - emigration" to "regions of possibil ity" where "the great-grandchildren of the crossing-sweeper and the sandwichman sport by the waves . . . sing aloud for joy in the beauty of their home and the pride of their race...
...Home Affairs, three mayors, five Senators and 70 local councillors. "I came over," explains Senator Millar Cameron, a longtime stalwart of the Protestant-dominated Unionist Party, "partly because I profoundly believe they are doing the right thing for Northern Ireland, partly because it involves the future of my grandchildren and partly because it involves the future of Senator Millar Cameron...
...Nhut base commander, shouldered through the crowd and stepped to the boarding ramp; he had been having a final glass of champagne near by. Though the 825 American members of the Joint Military Commission were to stay on in Viet Nam for another two days, Odell could tell his grandchildren that he was officially the last...