Word: ah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after another on child behavior-all, as Dr. Hilde Bruch points out [TIME, Aug. 30], without any scientific proof whatsoever . . . As the result, parents are in total confusion . . . Scout leaders report behavior in ten-and twelve-year-olds that usually was relegated to the nursery-school level. But discipline? Ah, that's a dirty word and used only to describe the old Prussian army . . . But the greatest loss of all has been good, old-fashioned common sense. Without this, the genius becomes stupid in society, and the stupid, with just a modicum of it, can raise his I.Q. . . . Today...
Face the Taunts. "Ah, yah," cried the women scornfully. "Why do you want to be with the losers?" Swarms of children pranced around the post, hooting and whooping derisively at the garrison. Some threw stones. A pretty young girl leaped forward from the crowd and slapped her belly. "Sons?" she taunted. "Our bodies will bear no sons for traitors." Some women bared their breasts at the troops to shame and disconcert them...
...Frenchmen (so the story goes) were listening to a Beethoven quartet. "Ah, magnifique," sighed one, "what a beautiful theme." "Yes indeed," agreed the other. "Let's get out of here before he starts developing...
...pilgrims hustled past her premises and up the nearest mountain to the little (pop. 643) village of Castel San Pietro Romano. For there the rumor had it, a goddess enchantingly more substantial had suddenly come to earth among the amorous groves. Gina Lollobrigida (pronounced low-low-bridge-id-ah) was in town to make a movie...
...they brought him at home. For primitive man needs praise as much as the urban intellectual. Sam's priceless reward was seeing the revulsion in a native woman's face at sight of him change to admiration when she saw his carvings. To Bachelor Sam she whispered: "Ah, but you are clever...