Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used to lie awake nights imagining the suffering of my yet unborn grandchildren in the ecological nightmare of the future...
...Bengali businessman told of losing his son, daughter-in-law and four grandchildren in the fire. Few apparently survived in the destroyed sections-25 square blocks-of the Old City. If they escaped the flames, they ran into gunfire. To frighten survivors, soldiers refused to allow the removal of decomposing bodies for three days, despite the Moslem belief in prompt burial, preferably within 24 hours, to free the soul...
...teen-age books as well as novels. She hates housework and has no hobbies, preferring to sit at the typewriter all day writing fiction or dealing with a huge correspondence. Outside, her husband, a retired businessman, cuts trails through their 100 acres of western New Jersey woodland so the grandchildren can ride in the snowmobile...
...metaphor for something cosmically elusive. But even in 1850, the whale was almost as easy to catch and slaughter as the buffalo or the Indian. Today, by a process of relentless elimination that is anything but allegorical, whales are becoming an embattled species. Ahab's great-grandchildren fire their harpoons from cannons...
Saturday night, in a your-grandchildren-will-never-believe-this setting, Harvard's retiring hockey coach, Cooney Weiland, walked off the Boston Garden ice arm-in-arm with his All-American captain, Joe Cavanagh, for the last time to the ovation of dejected Cornell fans, B. U. cheerleaders, emotional alumni, local rink rats, and Section 18 fans in a state of complete shock...