Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tones of Authority. On the surface, it was a lazy week, and the 30-odd newsmen assigned to the President sat around fidgeting over the lack of any spot news. In what was intended as a broad hint of their impatience, they staged a mock welcome for Press Secretary Charles Ross and Personal Secretary Matthew Connelly, who arrived to spend a few days with the boss. Sheets, shorts, undershirts and pants were strung across a street on the Navy's Key West submarine base. The Negro girls of Douglass High School, dressed in gym suits, and Walter...
...rest of the time the President swam, signed documents, lunched, napped, appeared in pith helmet and various tails-out sport shirts, strolled around the base, ate dinner, played poker in the evenings. He never went fishing and almost never ventured outside of the base into the flat, rambling town of Key West...
...always used indoor bats with about four inches sawed off so we could hide them in the sleeves of our coats. We had to use bats because the longshoremen fought with their cargo hooks.* Sailors used a two-foot length of tracer chain, or wrapped window-sash chain around their fists...
...Children should not be spanked, declared Yale's Dr. Arnold Gesell, particularly when they are around 2½ years old. Such a child is just learning the difference between "yes" and "no," "come" and "go." When he seems disobedient he is probably only confused. For confused parents, Psychologist Gesell added: "If a child becomes destructive, you can try to beat it out of him . . . The better way is to try to lead him to play situations where these impulses are directed and put to constructive ends . . ." In other words, give him something better...
...said that France would get out of the Marshall Plan rather than cooperate in a European union built around a dominant Germany. "The British and Americans want to reconstitute the Reich. That is not worth denying...