Word: chil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thomas L. Pitts, secretary-treasurer of the California A.F.L.-C.I.O., accused growers of acting "like pampered chil dren sitting back with a steady barrage of crybaby pleas that their crops are about to rot. If they would demonstrate only a fraction as much interest in their workers as they do in their crops, the labor problem would evaporate...
...parishioners thereupon became the first Episcopalians in the U.S. to receive communion from a woman. The service took place - where else? - in the diocese of California's experiment-loving Bishop James A. Pike, who is de termined to ordain Mrs. Edwards to the diaconate. A widow with four chil dren, she is now one of about 70 active Episcopal deaconesses authorized by the church to perform social work and teach the catechism...
...G.O.P. National Committee Chairman William Miller, a New York Congressman who could also give the ticket a Northeastern tinge, a Catholic, an orator with a gift for tough-talking gab, a clean-cut looking 50-year-old with a handsome wife and four attractive chil dren who would be an asset in anybody's campaign. But he is a relatively unknown politician who is not even standing for re-election this year from his upstate New York congressional district...
...hard, harsh life. The market woman's day begins at 4 a.m.; by sunup, she is ready for business-often with a derby on her head, a strong cigar between her teeth, an infant at her breast. While her five or six older chil dren scurry underfoot and her common-law husband of the moment snores the day away, she haggles and harangues, using every wile to turn a profit. She rigs prices, forms miniature cartels, organizes rock-solid unions that defy municipal authorities...
...teacher's motives for wanting to help the helpless: she feels that her life is empty and hopes that the chil dren will fill it. She loves Reuben truly, but she cannot see that if love solves her problem it does not solve Reuben's. Passionately the psychologist tells her: "Your love is not enough! These children need discipline. Their lives are a never-ending battle for small victories. No one ever needed to succeed in any little way so much as these children do." The cli max harshly proves the point...