Word: careful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Certain peculiar problems are presented by such an evening as that which is forthcoming Monday due to the quality of the Devens community. "For those who wish to attend and cannot obtain babysitters," states Hunt, "the Village Church is arranging to have several babysitters to care for the children in a separate building...
...that demobilization has been reduced to a trickle, and if Devens College, instituted as a post-war emergency, is liquidated, the supply of State education will be no larger than in prewar times. Veterans taking Devens' two-year course, having been assured that the State will take care of them for four years, soon will be left shivering on an academic doorstep with half a college education and a half-used G.I. Bill of Rights...
Harry Hines Woodring of Topeka, Kans. is a man who loves nice things. As a private citizen, he likes tatting, antiques, and the view from his front porch, with its pleasant shrubbery and small lake. As a politician, he doesn't care to associate with the hoarse, beefy men of the smoke-filled hotel rooms...
...Josef explained that lack of food isn't the only reason for the miners' lethargy: "It's also because we don't really care. Right now we get more to eat if we mine more, but the coal itself doesn't do us any good. Part of it is exported to Lord knows where, and what should go to our industry doesn't-we're not allowed to produce all the things we need. Where is the stuff to rebuild our homes? Where are the clothes I need for myself and my wife...
...father goes in fear of his sons and they don't pay any respect to him-just to show how free they are! And the schoolteachers take care to please the children, who in return pay them no attention. The young argue with their elders, and the old will do anything not to seem disagreeable or responsible. . . . The citizens . . . get hot and angry at the least sign that they are not completely free. In the end they make light of the very laws themselves, so as to have no master whatsoever over them...