Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Attitude. While Donovan is indelibly stamped as an Easterner, Thomas knows the home territory. He was editor and part owner of a Los Angeles suburban paper, the Sierra Madre News, before joining the Los Angeles Mirror in 1957. He was city editor when the Mirror was killed by the parent Times in 1962, and became metropolitan editor of the Times in 1965. Since then his young and talented local staff has won two Pulitzer Prizes...
...sentiment stand in the way; she used the 100,000 shares of La Centrale stock that he had sold her at a bargain price a decade earlier when his daughter married her son. For last year's real estate merger, she bought up shares of SACIE's parent company, a conglomerate called SAFFA, until she had control...
...only child and, though popular, was a loner in school as well. His mother died when he was ten (his father remarried a year later), and he recalls the pain he felt at being the only one in his class who had lost a parent. His earliest playmates were girls, and he never learned games boys play. "When we moved to Lincoln," he says, "I remember going out at recess to play baseball. They told me to play shortstop, and I thought they said 'shortstock.' It was awful...
Many school districts quietly followed HEW guidelines and court orders. At La-Grange, a textile town near the Alabama border, a white parent complains bitterly about the poor education her children are receiving. Then she adds: "I can't afford the private academy, so all I can do is try to find some way to help upgrade the teachers." A student at upper-class Northside High School in Atlanta describes a short-lived rebellion: "We threatened to walk out when the black kids started coming here, but our parents threatened to take our cars away from...
...called Count Yorga, Vampire contained even more than the usual quota of gore, including a sequence in which a pliant young woman has an orgasm while a vampire sucks blood from her neck. The board wanted to rate the film either R (anyone under 17 restricted unless accompanied by parent or guardian) or X (forbidden entirely to those under 17 or, in some places, 18). The studio agreed to cut some of the bloodier footage and finally won a GP rating. What remained under the GP label included a shortened version of the jugular orgasm and one character eating...