Word: care
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Price Is High." Wrote one angry rice merchant: "You little-devil-just -out -of -your -mother's -womb, how dare you try to catch a fly on the tiger's head! If the price of rice is high, why are we merchants to blame? Take care lest one of your ancestors was a rice worm-in which case you're cursing your own forefathers. Be reasonable or you may regret it. . . ." Undaunted, Little Happiness sang...
...throat. Her work, of course, is mainly preventive medicine and, although she says that TIME'S employees are an extraordinarily healthy lot, the records kept by her staff have proved very useful to doctors needing accurate information about someone's health history. This kind of care occasionally has other ramifications. A husband happened to drop in with his wife, who had a blister on her heel. While examining the blister, Miss Ryerson glanced at the husband and, in a way that nurses have, reached for a thermometer and stuck it in his mouth. The upshot...
Unsmiling and unexcited, she walked rapidly from tee to green, hitting the ball with care, but without fuss. Determined to make her the world's best, her father, a former golf-course owner, had started her golfing at four. Usually Marlene considers golf fun, but a few weeks ago she had balked at practicing. Father, putting on an act of what he called "wrathful psychology," broke her niblick over his knee. She cried, repented, and went back to her practicing, thereupon won the Palm Springs Invitational Tournament (with play that included a par 70). Marlene's ambition...
...rather than cinema's customary flibbertigibbet tatters. Even so, two hours of this kind of frenzied anthologizing, however well meant, are exhausting. It is often said in defense of such musical popularization that it serves to interest many people in good music who might never otherwise learn to care for it. It might also be suggested that the effort could frighten many potential music lovers away...
...imminent flood and appoints the author as a latter-day Noah. The idea is pretty thin to start with, and it is not even corn-fed from there on. The building of the Ark, for instance, is a nail-by-nail account that only a carpenter might care to follow. Author White, who wrote the book in County Meath, finds Irishmen slovenly, superstitious, witless and whining- when they are not irritatingly lovable, that...