Word: orphaned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three years later. Welles would memorialize his mother in Kane and find father-sponsors in his prep-school principal, Broadway's John Houseman, RKO's George Schaefer. He would also make himself a father figure, at 20 playing men of 80. From early days, then, Welles was one wily orphan. Who was left to love him? Only the rest of the world...
...ORPHAN ABUSE IN CHINA...
...past emerged--a story that characterized her as a paranoid orphan who had also killed her sister...
...labor movement is also a political orphan. Says George Becker, president of the United Steel Workers: "We haven't been able to get the kind of legislation we need to protect working people. We are the Democratic Party, and yet, going back as far as the '70s, we've been unable to get legislation that protects working people's standard of living. We're in a race to the bottom, and that has got to change...
...husband just for a night, to grant her respectability in the family's eyes, then to disappear. That, you know, is not going to be easy. She is beautiful (and meltingly portrayed by Sanchez-Gijon), her relatives are entertainingly fractious, and he, we discover, is an orphan with a lifelong need for the kind of noisy warmth they generate...