Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Merk is survived by her two children, Katharine M. McNally of Ontario, N.Y., and Frederick B. of Winchester, Mass., and four grandchildren...
Bates is survived by his wife, Louise (MacMillan); two sons, George P. of Weston and Nathaniel B. of Concord; and six grandchildren...
...they get their hands on a monsterosity the medical profession don't know when to stop." A man who calls himself a king of the Gypsies is asked his age: "Between forty-five and seventy-five . . . My hair's been white for years and years, and I got seventeen grandchildren, and I bet I'm an old, old man." (His story was so enchanting that a Broadway musical, Bajour, was based on Mitchell's profile; it ran for 234 performances during the 1964 season...
Buchanan glared like a Jesuit prefect of discipline and stabbed the air. His rendition was family values in the bully's mode -- an appeal to visceral prejudices, not to American ideals. Barbara Bush and the tableau of Bush children and grandchildren transmitted a softer version, a kind of Pepperidge Farm, white-bread appeal in handsome plenty...
...feelings for Rabin, whose government has canceled Likud's plans to build 6,500 houses in the territories but will continue with 10,000 others. He invited Rabin to stay overnight -- making him one of only five world leaders to do so -- and introduced him to his mother and grandchildren. More tangibly, Bush promised to guarantee the repayment of up to $10 billion in bank loans Israel will obtain over five years to energize its economy and help it absorb immigrants from the former Soviet Union...