Word: orphan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Class Committee has voted to "adopt" the orphan through the Foster Parents Plan, Inc., under a program which will extend for the next four years as a group project. The class will provide the orphan with clothes, food, and education...
...Greek orphan will have the unique experience of having 297 foster mothers as the result of a project of the Radcliffe freshman class...
...event which her second husband, Critic Edmund Wilson, in The Wound and the Bow considered decisive to the character of a writer-the wound for which a life of writing must compensate. In the flu epidemic of 1918 Mary McCarthy's parents died, and she was an orphan in a strange bed in a strange city-Minneapolis. Mary and her brothers were condemned to razorstrop beatings in the downstairs lavatory by a hated uncle. Her Uncle Myers is now dead, but the narrative of life under his hateful roof (presents were taken away because they were "too good...
...order. But the goal soon broadened; the Benedictines sheltered Arab political refugees displaced by the swelling national unrest, and word of the monks' kindness quickly spread. Soon the monks were treating some 200 Berbers a day at their newly built dispensary, sheltering and educating a flock of 20 orphan boys. No attempt at conversion was made. In fact, monks encouraged the young Moroccans to worship actively in their Moslem religion. Tribesmen and city dwellers respected the Benedictines, bestowed on them a title of high honor: "True Moslems...
TIME, March 18 says: "The Depression-time rarity, the $20 bill, has come to be at home in everybody's wallet"-maybe in everybody's but the Joe on the fixed income. If you see one of those double sawbucks, that is an orphan looking for a home, give it this address. Many that have been shunted to the mothballs haven't viewed the countenance of Andrew Jackson for such a long period that your picture of same was mistaken for that Tennessee minstrel minus...