Word: bred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Born & Bred G.O.P. Halleck's mother and father, both lawyers and Lincoln-loving Republican workers, christened him (Aug. 22, 1900) Charles Abraham Halleck, called him "Little Abe." At 14 he worked furiously in local campaigns, hauled voters to the polls as soon as he was old enough to drive a car. In 1917 he signed up as an infantry private, developed his parade-ground voice (the House's second loudest, after Illinois' Noah Mason), won lieutenant's bars Stateside before flu struck him down. At Indiana University, one of the big playing fields for future Hoosier...
...anti-polio war is to complete three-shot protection for 50 million Americans under 40 who still have had no vaccine or only an odd shot. This will mean wiping out pockets of epidemic potential, now found mainly in low-living-standard areas, such as the Detroit slums that bred 1958's deadliest outbreak. Simultaneously, Dr. Salk recommended a fourth or booster shot for those who have already had three. (Though some nervous-Nellie parents have had their children jabbed seven or eight times, this apparently does no good: the fourth shot gives antibody levels as high as they...
...that this is a bad Hamlet, by any means. On the contrary, it is a very nice one. It is well-dressed, well-spoken, and well-bred, Every word and action appears carfully premeditated and skillfully executed. When not a word of a play holds any surprises to many in the audience, its production may all too easily become a genteel ritual in propitiation of the gods of Culture. The Old Vic personnel do not fight against this tendency; they positively embrace it. Only at a few points is anything so unseemly as a spontaneous emotion allowed...
...hope of 1959 that 1958's limited success in cold-war foreign policy bred a tough U.S. restraint and a will to live with the battle in all its forms. It was the hope of the policy of decades that 1959 began with a general dissatisfaction with the broad aims and goals of U.S. policy as thus defined, a general determination to do something about them...
...Boston-bred Tammy came out at the Brookline (Mass.) Country Club. "All those other debs look exactly alike," says she. "And all of them knit." It seems a shame to Tammy that people can no longer live like F. Scott Fitzgerald's flappers, bang, bang, bang, without worrying how it will all come out." The trouble is, she complains, that "people are so wriggly about things. I don't say I was naughty, but I've been in swimming pools that didn't have any water in them...