Word: orphaning
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...Hartford Courant drops two weeks of Little Orphan Annie after the pupil- less heroine is railroaded into an insane asylum. Says the publisher: "It would disturb people with relations in mental institutions...
...busy," she replied. An orphan, she was not only working but attending classes as well. The second time Nixon drove her home, he again asked for a date, again was shrugged off. The third time it happened, Nixon said, "Someday I'm going to marry you." It took two years of courtship before she agreed in 1940; she converted to the Quaker faith and used her own savings to buy the wedding ring...
...recounted in one letter telling her hairdresser, "I was an orphan," and the remark, while technically untrue, was emotionally accurate. Her father died eight months after her birth, a loss that drove her mother into a mental home. The child lived with various relatives, including a spell with her mother's family in Nova Scotia...
...1990s, according to the Orphan Project of New York City, more than 80,000 otherwise healthy children in the U.S. will have lost their mother to AIDS. In most cases the fathers have already died or are absent. Hardest hit: children in New York City; Washington; Miami; Los Angeles; Newark, New Jersey; and San Juan, Puerto Rico...
...TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Sources: GOOD: Nature Genetics, Lancet}]BAD: The Orphan Project, American Journal of Epidemiology