Word: orphan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complaints remind me of the story that is told to explain the definition of chutzpah: murdering one's mother and father and then pleading for clemency because one is an orphan...
...complaints remind me of the story that is told to explain the definition of chut: pah: murdering one's mother and father and then pleading for clemency because one is an orphan...
...full meetings and consultations with hundreds of experts, the eleven-member Commission on Strategic Forces brought forth its 26-page final report last week. There were few surprises. The blue-ribbon panel, appointed last January by President Reagan as a last-ditch attempt to find a home for the orphan MX missile, recommended the prompt deployment of 100 MX missiles in existing Minuteman silos and research on silo "hardening." For the long term, the panel proposed the development of an unspecified number of smaller (15-ton) single-warhead missiles with a range, like...
...when Aharon Appelfeld was nine years old, he managed to escape from a labor camp in the Rumanian-occupied Ukraine. He was in effect already an orphan; his mother had been killed by the Nazis, and his father failed to escape with him. For two years the boy wandered the inhospitable countryside, working as a shepherd, fleeing human contact. "I knew that if the peasants discovered I was Jewish, they would kill me," he later recalled...
...thought about that creed, which had shaped me too, I became convinced that my own need to understand my past, to cease feeling like an orphan in history, to overcome my recurrent feeling that I was an outsider wherever I went, was so deep that I had to find some version of the cohesive, communal Judaism that my father was beginning to rediscover [at his death...