Word: sons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thompsons have traveled to many places and looked at many babies who might have been their son. Always it was the same-the twinge of hope, the sharp pain of disappointment, the sad journey back to Dayton...
...Dayton were sent to the University of Michigan hospital, where a doctor ran them through 132 heredity tests. Through the night and until late the next day the Thompsons waited. Then a detective broke the news: "The blood tests show positively that Tommy O'Neill is not your son...
Last week, after four years as the sly, tireless head of the Communist-run German Socialist Unity Party, "Father Unity" (as his comrades called him) was formally inaugurated as president of the new Red puppet republic in Germany's Russian zone. Pieck, a worker's son, watched a torchlight parade of 300,000 Berliners (complete with fireworks, goose step and Prussian military marches), inspected the Communist-trained "people's police." Berliners compared the show to the one the Nazis staged when Hitler seized power in 1933. Two days after the fireworks came the greatest honor...
Overburdened by the pressure of public affairs, the eminent mayor was unable to handle the moose's schooling and commissioned his son, Sylvain, to tutor the beast. Sylvain waited until the moose attained a reasonable size and then constructed a sulky in front of which the moose was to become the swiftest beast for miles around and a pleasure for all to behold. But it soon became evident that there are certain obstacles to be overcome in the training for harness of every young moose. For one thing, moose pace, and nothing can be done about it. It would neither...
...presented the Dick Hall House to Dartmouth in memory of her son, Richard Drew Hall. Her husband, the late Edward K. Hall, was a vice president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and chairman of the Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee...