Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hastily called emergency meeting in Chicago Oct. 30, the Council Executive Committee took an unprecedented step. Declaring that "we cannot allow any doubt about a complete repudiation" of the atrocities of the Nazi era, they called upon the Orthodox Church in America, parent body of Trifa's Rumanian churches, to ask Trifa to suspend his National Council activities until the federal courts, and an investigation by the Orthodox Church, settle the case...
...Mississippi, decreed last June that no students in his district would be admitted to high school unless they could read at the sixth-grade level. To help Grant students achieve that proficiency, he created Operation Higher Achievement. Basically, it is a program of determined cooperation among teachers, pupils and parents. Last fall nearly all parents of Grant's 1,350 students-75% of whom come from single-parent households-signed "contracts" pledging, among other things, to encourage their children to read to them and "to provide ... a quiet, well-lighted area for regular study." For their part, teachers undertook...
...simplest level, Carrie is a rendering of that familiar fairy tale of the adolescent misfit-misunderstood and cruelly treated by a parent, despised and tormented by her peers-who finally turns on them all and gains dramatic, and emotionally satisfying, revenge...
...International Day Care Center closed at the end of the summer due to lack of funds and insufficient parent involvement, Brenda C. Brewington, former director of the center, said yesterday...
...From Your Show of Shows. The brilliant Kenmore Square scheduling people paired this parent piece with The Producers. In the fifties, Sid Caeser looked over the television landscape like one of the Easter Isonad heads might. Slaving for the boss were Brooks, Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Imogene Coca, Howard Morris, Carl Reiner and some other people they could use in the United States Senate. The product was called Your Show of Shows and it has never been equalled...