Word: orphaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with two: a 14-year-old half-Vietnamese boy and a six-year-old black girl. Added to the Wasp pair already on hand, the newcomers set the family melting pot at high boil. The sentiment gets a bit thick, but there is something appealing about the war orphan's brashness ("My dad was a big hero. Maybe you heard of him -- John Wayne") and something real about the way the daughter, who was adopted years earlier, resents the attention given the newcomer. Gould, once Hollywood's epitome of anti-Establishment scruffiness, has drifted into sitcomland with surprising meekness. Still...
...marshal of the tiny (pop. 650) ranching town of Cokeville, Wyo., David Young often dressed up like an old-time sheriff and brandished his pistol at the slightest provocation. Fired eight years ago for overzealousness, he moved away, some said back to Iowa, where he had grown up an orphan obsessed with guns. Last week Young, 42, returned with a horrible vengeance...
...hand, the professor said he does not think he could fit Gen Ed 180 into the Core, which does not favor interdisciplinary classes. "It's an orphan," he said of the course. "When I first came here, there was a big push toward multi-disciplinary projects. But around the time the Core was established it kind of waned...
...blame for the check-kiting scheme as high as possible on the corporate ladder, Bell discovered a "peculiar management structure" at Hutton with fuzzy personal responsibilities. No one, for example, was willing to admit being the immediate boss of Morley, the cash manager. Wrote Bell: "Morley is now an orphan, seemingly lost or at least in limbo along with his corporate function." Even so, the investigator found fault with Lynch because "he should have been aware of potential abuses of overdrafting...
...formula for MDMA is available to anyone and cannot be repatented. Without the assurance of profits from exclusive production, no pharmaceutical company is likely to invest the millions of dollars it takes to test any drug for Government approval. Notes San Francisco Psychiatrist Jack Downing: "MDMA is an orphan that has nobody bidding to be its parent...