Word: bred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...give us the men of blood'?" His jaw tensed, and he read the quote again, lingering a moment on "blood." He is not optimistic that "the men of blood" can be restrained. The government's policies have annihilated the moderates like Luthuli; in its growing extremism the regime has bred extremism among the blacks...
...Extremely well-bred debutantes are never compulsive eaters." The compulsive eaters who decided this went on to argue whether their affliction was very peasant-like or very bourgeois. "Then again," said one girl, "maybe we're just slobs...
Telegraphed Admiration. Traditionalists deplore the trend and complain that it has vulgarized a stylish, patrician ritual. In the old days, no well-bred European kissed a woman's hand before noon, or outdoors (except at garden parties or the race track), or if she wore gloves-and not at all, in most countries, if she was unmarried. Nowadays, even in strait-laced Spain, girls who are barely old enough to hold up a strapless bra have their hands out. When it is enclosed in a glove, uninhibited males blithely peel it off or smooch the wrist instead...
...somehow gives the impression that he is afraid of catching germs. To purists, the greatest danger is that the art, dry or wet, is becoming too popular. "When a man used to kiss your hand, and did it right," mourns one venerable German baroness, "it meant he was well-bred. Now you can't be sure any more." Of course, she adds slyly, "I can still distinguish between a genuine antique and a fake. I can feel it in my fingertips...
...first of the Harvard-bred Kennedy appointees to return to his academic home, John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, speaks easily about his two-year tenure as the head of the U.S. embassy in India. Leaving no doubt that he was in charge both in deed and in fact, Galbraith maintained that any ambassador "can have as large a role as he wants" in policy decisions. In his own case, he added, he had an even greates voice in such decisions since he "went out there as President Kennedy's man in India...