Word: beaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outgrow the Easter bunny and jelly bean bit years ago. Got no new clothes to show off. There's the Easter Parade song--remember how cool you felt when you found out what a rotogravure was? Now you don't even know if you'll put in an appearance at church to see all the folks who are putting in their annual appearances at church. What's Easter, anyway...
...Supreme Bean." But by the logic of the Catholic school system, children trained in it should get notably better religious formation. Mrs. Ryan thinks they do not, partly because parochial schools are anachronistic. No longer, she argues, are the Roman Catholic Church and its schools in the "state of siege" that has existed since the Reformation. No longer must Catholics be equipped with weapons of defense against Protestant teachings. What is needed, she feels, is workable religious instruction to make all Catholics better Christians in the community...
Louise Malone, 58, a fragile-looking widow who works as an oil company accountant, and whose hair turned white after her daughter got a bean caught in her windpipe and almost choked some 20 years...
...Unskilled and unschooled, the migrants simply disappear into Rio's hillside favelas, Caracas' ranchos, Santiago's callampas, the slums that choke every large Latin American city. In a year's time, squatters at the edge of Colombia's port city of Barranquilla turned a bean field into a shantytown of crude huts housing 2,500 people. Lima's slums are growing ten times faster than the city itself; 450,000 live in slums today, compared with 120,000 in 1957. For nearly all, the chances of ever rising out of the slums are slim...
What help he gets comes from a bespectacled Irishman, Tom Duffy, who first introduced Thomas to the high-jump bar nine years ago at Rindge Technical high school in Cambridge, Mass. "John was a little string bean," recalls Duffy. "He had decided he wanted to be a tennis player. I had to get that idea out of his head, and the only way I could do it was to take him out on the courts and lick him pretty good. Once that was done, he was ready to jump...