Word: careful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said Dwight Eisenhower, "it was thought we could live our lives on a little piece of ground in the West, and the older folks-grandfather and grandmother-could live in the same home after their days of hard work were ended. That's the way we took care of ourselves and our older people. Today, through the changes in our industrial system, we as a people have become dependent for old-age security more and more upon pensions, insurance policies, savings bonds and savings accounts. These are the people that are particularly hurt by depreciation of the dollar...
...government admitted "there is no guarantee the volunteer will be given good treatment on the farms," but protested, "We are not responsible for his landing with a bad employer. There are bad employers everywhere." Minimum standards of rations and free medical care are urged, but, conceded the government, "these requirements cannot be enforced-they are merely suggestions to the farmer...
...Matron Gregg Sherwood Dodge, 35, fifth wife of freewheeling Auto Heir Horace Dodge Jr., announced that she has raised $2.5 million in cash and pledges for "Girls' Town, U.S.A.," a haven to be built in southern Florida for "lost, frightened, abandoned girls from ten to 18 who need care and help." Gregg, a onetime chorus girl accused of adult delinquency in the past (charges of drunken driving, resisting arrest, slugging cops), made it clear that her nonsectarian, non-profit project is no transient whim. Said she soberly: "It would help to correct the alarming rate of violence and abandoned...
...storm she stumbles out into the barnyard and has a miscarriage in the mud. Husband Boyd, generously letting bygones be bygones picks her up in his brawny arms and staggers six miles cross-country to the doctor. Then he turns around and staggers back to the farm to take care of Susan's seven-year-old son (Dennis Holmes). But the boy, who thinks that Boyd has killed his mother, tries to take care of him first. He lures the man to a convenient quagmire, all set to snicker as he sinks, but Actor Boyd keeps his chin...
...Buttrick attributed woman's special interest in religion to her centrality to the home and its security, not to greater emotionalism. Similarly, the Rev. Richard E. Mumma of the First Congregational Church noted that a woman has a deepened perception of religious things "out of her care for children and closer and more personal association with the family...