Word: sons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the pink, tubby façade of rich Clendenin John Ryan, the soul of the selfless public servant throbbed. Unlike many another son of privilege, he did not collect show girls; he devoted himself to business and the sober pursuit of turning rascals out of government...
...son of a Cardiff draper, Dr. Follick was born in Wales where every schoolboy is expected to learn the spelling of such names as Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogery-chwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. At 17, he left Wales for Australia. Perhaps Down Under he heard about the New Zealand hilltop called Taumatawhakatangihangako-auauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu. He developed an English alphabet containing...
Other families were ripped apart. Mrs. William Mann and one of her daughters were among the Penman's employees who stayed on the job. Her son, Harold, and another daughter sided with the pickets, who jeered at old friends and relatives at the plant gates...
...Dwight, the announcement came as no great surprise. The son of a Pasadena physicist, he has also been studying the distribution, taxonomic position and ecology of mollusks in Southern California. Where would all this lead him (after four years at the University of Michigan)? "Oh, I'll probably end up in some university museum or something. One can't live on just nothing...
...show was Marcks's Holy Spring, a naked, hopeful-looking boy modeled in memory of his son, who was killed at the front. The spirit that enabled him to make that one had stood him in good stead throughout the years of Nazi domination...