Word: grandpas
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...India's British rulers were harsh, and often Indira watched one or both of her parents or grandfather being marched off to jail. A visitor to the Nehru home in those days remembers being informed by a grave-faced Indira that "I'm sorry, but Papa, Mama and Grandpa are all in prison...
...grandpa's Merc, which quavered like a bat ahead...
...Zulu and the Zayda. Zayda means grandfather in Yiddish, and a pixyish, diminutive grandpa (Menasha Skulnik) is the hero of this "play with music" set in Johannesburg. This Zayda speaks three languages-Zulu Yiddish, English Yiddish, and Yiddish Yiddish. He has a black African friend and com panion, a tall, open-faced child of good nature (Louis Gossett), who strangely enough also speaks Yiddish a good deal of the time. Playgoers who know only English may feel a sneaking desire to hear their mother tongue, but that would be a questionable mercy when the dialogue runs to such dire profundities...
With such sanctified support, his mother never doubted that great things awaited Lyndon. But it was Grandpa Sam Ealy Johnson who came closest to pinpointing the boy's future. "I expect him," averred Sam, "to be United States Senator before he is 40." As usual for a Johnson, the boast was only slightly inflated...
...lenses with which he has previously disguised his hyperopia for the benefit of the TV audience. As he gazed at the "people eater," the combination close-up camera and teleprompter that all but obscures the President from his audience, he looked for all the world like a genial Foxy Grandpa...