Word: orphaning
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...plot is appropriately complex. Milly, a lily-white picture of virtue, the orphan daughter of a farmer, has just returned from a year of schooling in the city. With her first whiff of the pure country air, she again falls in love with her childhood sweetheart, the galumphing but more-than-pure, Osgood. He asks her hand and, in reply, she delivers the fatal lines, "Oh Osgood, that cannot be. The die is cast...
Others are paid subsidies by the Junior A. The subsidies are determined, as is a Harvard scholarship, on the basis of need. Kinasewich, who is an orphan, had to work to help pay for his room and board. As Junior A hockey demands intensive practice, he could not play hockey and work at the same time. Therefore the team paid him the equivalent of what he could have earned, and gave him the chance to continue in school. It also paid him money for lodging and meals for out-of-town games...
...which launched a drive on businessmen suspected of holding out on taxes or hoarding gold. Chan claims he saw police figures in 1953 listing, for Canton alone, 8,000 executions and 10,000 suicides. Chan says now: "I wanted to quit, but it was as if I were an orphan. I felt I had no place...
...realizes that the terrorist is vulnerable as well as brutal. He tenderly describes a nocturnal raid on a minority cemetery by young party recruits : their initiation into Nazi-type brutality. Scared and disgusted, one starts to stutter, another has an attack of diarrhea, a third gouges his eye. An orphan, reminded of his parents' grave, tears up the cemetery more ferociously than anyone else, "as though he wanted to scratch the buried bones out of the ground...
Franklin's biggest single venture is in Iran, where in 1957 it launched a handsome Golden Book geography. Royalties were so abundant that Franklin turned them into a loan for building a first-rate printing plant in Tehran, staffed by the newly trained graduating class of an orphan asylum. Out of this grew a healthy new Iranian textbook industry...