Word: careless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boys view a film explaining changes at puberty, which includes a stern warning about masturbation-"a careless habit that leads to unhappy thinking." Girls see a film about menstruation. By seventh grade, the kids are asking, "How is the number of children regulated by parents?" The answers sometimes prudishly shade the truth; asked about contraceptives, one teacher replies: "I say they are sold to married people, and I stress their unreliability...
...cause of the tragedy, by the hospital's own admission, was an extraordinary catalogue of casual and careless actions by several doctors...
...said he is "quite distressed" by the intensified use of the drugs across the nation and by "the careless attitude" many people have adopted regarding the seriousness of the issue...
Divorced. By Joan Bennett, 55, movie siren of the 1930s (Careless Lady): Walter Wanger, 71, veteran film producer (Joan of Arc, Cleopatra), who in 1952 served 15 weeks in jail for jealously shooting her agent, Jennings Lang, in the groin; on grounds of incompatibility; after 25 years of marriage, two children; in Juarez, Mexico...
...chuck it all and live a little. He says ta-ta to his spouse and house, toddles off with a well-educated wench, ends up in Algeria running guns to the rebels and imagining he is out of the ruck and into the luck. Sillitoe was always a careless writer, and now that he is crassly cashing in, he is grossly sprawling out. He is inaccurate: "They were attracted like two magnets in a field of iron filings." He is prolix: "Frank kicked him, a hand cracking on flesh, and the purple, spark-fanged floor on the sway and loose...