Word: orphaning
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...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...
...brave and bright, good-natured and ambitious, naive and vulnerable. All in all, he's probably the most winsome orphan to appear on the screen since Freddie Bartholomew impersonated David Copperfield 60 years ago. To be sure, Babe is a piglet, but hey, these days you take goodness where you can find it--and resolutely deny whatever snooty qualms anthropomorphism raises...
...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...