Word: entrusted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shows up in a foreign car, and no one need explain or apologize for driving one. With thousands of war babies coming of driving age and crying for their own cars, countless families have found the foreign car an inexpensive playmate for Junior-and a less precious article to entrust to freewheeling Mom. The number of two-car families has grown to 17% of all car owners. Now the three-car family is coming along; there are an estimated 375,000 such families...
...rather than the story-hungry press. Milan's daily Il Giorno (circ. 150,000), coming to the astonished realization that the Pope's chief physician was not a tried clinician, asked what was, perhaps, the most startling question raised by the whole furor: "How could Pius XII entrust his health for so many years to a quack...
...Russians' failures have been due partly to the innate reluctance of the more sophisticated leaders to entrust their nations' future to the Communists, partly to the inability of Soviet industry to deliver the quality and quantity of goods promised. But the Soviet industrial machine is expanding. It will take the West's best united efforts to match its challenge...
Though an able administrator and an adroit politician. Georgy Malenkov was probably too ruthless an intriguer for the big institutions (NKVD, the army, etc.) to entrust their future to. Though he lasted 23 months as Premier of the Soviet Union. Malenkov lasted only 16 days as First Secretary of the party, the crucial job Stalin willed him. Next in line after Malenkov in the hierarchy was Beria (who was quickly liquidated, a sop to popular anti-Stalin feeling, as much as for the crimes he had committed). Then came Molotov, Kaganovich, Mikoyan...
Hildy's mother, now Mrs. Gerald R. Doherty with another child of her own, issued her own statement. "Some day [Hildy] will learn the facts about her mother's desire to protect her with the privacy that others are willing to destroy. Meanwhile ... I entrust her to the loving protection of God. The rest is in the hands of my attorneys...