Word: nonsupportive
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...parents could provide $50,000 bail: "I don't think they would be interested." The third man, John Irwin, 42, of Hollywood, a house painter, had a record of arrests from Maine to California for a mixed bag of crimes ranging from assault and battery to nonsupport...
...League offers a six-month course in child care and home life, and the Catholic Church now plans night schools in literacy and parenthood for at least 75,000 young couples. And Venezuelan judges are getting tough with delinquent fathers. Under new laws passed by Congress, fathers guilty of nonsupport face a sobering choice: voluntary support of their offspring, a jail sentence, or a forcible child-care deduction from their weekly wages...
Berj Mosekian-until he had it legally changed. He had served jail time in California for passing bad checks. His first wife had divorced him for desertion and nonsupport. Morrison lost. Retired to private law practice, he blamed the Republic for his defeat, dreamed up ways to stage a comeback. Finally, he decided that the best way to do it was to start an opposition paper...
...repeating a vowel for several blocks if he likes its looks. Author Naipaul, a native of Trinidad, understands well that his comical characters do not live comic lives, and his best sketches are shaded with compassion. When police drag a much-admired fraud named Bogart off to jail for nonsupport, his friend Hat gives an eloquent explanation of why Bogart had left his wife in a distant village and returned to strut about Miguel Street: "To be a man, among we men." Laura, Bogart. and a few more of Port of Spain's people deserve another look...
...Nonsupport. In New Martinsville, W.Va., Robert Lasure is campaigning for the Republican nomination for justice of the peace, while his wife Thelma is seeking the Democratic nomination for the same office...