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Example sentences for: father

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Around the same time, he saved the career of Hyman Rickover, the father of the nuclear fleet, when Rickover was passed over for promotion to admiral in part because of anti-Semitism in the Navy.
Lucie Berard's father reported that the portrait of his daughter, with its unorthodox coloring and swirling purple background, "simply frightens people away."
Sam Bronfman, the family patriarch and Edgar Sr.'s father, was an utterly implacable businessman, the Atilla of liquor.
"Gee, Pa," Nelson exclaimed when he showed his father the redesigned offices, "isn't this all impressive?"
It has been variously supposed that Hitler did what he did because of 1) psychological problems arising from the aforementioned single testicle; 2) physical or sexual abuse by his father; 3) "epidemic encephalitis" contracted in the trenches of World War I; and 4) unforeseen aftereffects of a hypnosis session that restored his eyesight after he was wounded in a gas attack in 1918.