Word: parente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Parent Blankenship, who first announced that he would leave his Bronx home and move to the country, has decided to stay and renew his campaign against juvenile delinquency...
...proprietor of a Stutz Bearcat, Goodie met Arvilla Cooley, a dazzling blonde, at a dinner dance in Santa Monica. A year later they were married, and in due course Goodie became the doting father of two more dazzling blondes, Marilyn and Carolyn. Goodie, a mellow and indulgent parent, was surprised when he occasionally struck flint in his daughters' dispositions. When Carolyn was a student at U.S.C., he was curious to know why she had not joined a sorority. "Unlike you, Father," retorted Carolyn, "I feel no need for mass adulation." Life With Father. Around home, according to the girls...
...wartime organizer of the Office of War Information, one of the USIA's parent bodies, I have continued a lively interest in the cultural and information activities of this agency abroad. To me its influence in the cold war on men's minds is as essential as it was in the hot war against their lives. It has been indeed gratifying to note the intellectual range and the vivacity of these foreign colleagues who interpret U.S. democracy - its ideals and aspirations - for their fellow countrymen in so many lands...
...heartening report from Ann Arbor last week raised an urgent question for every U.S. parent: "Can my children get shots this year to keep them safe from polio?" For about 30 million (more than half the U.S. population under 18), the answer will be yes. Among them, a vast majority of children up to ten years of age will get the shots in one way or another. Originally, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis had intended to offer the vaccine in a series of three closely spaced shots within five weeks of each other, as was done in last year...
...defending her chastity against a Roman centurion. When the judges questioned her qualifications and refused to let her compete, the young mother received bales of encouraging letters and the judges were roundly blasted. The sex education given in public schools would make even the most modern, broad-minded American parent blanch. At a party in Stockholm, I met Mrs. Elise Ottesen-Jensen, the 17th of 18 children of a Norwegian family, a vigorous, outspoken woman who looks years younger than she is (69). She travels all over Sweden by car, train and even on skis to run clinics, advises branch...