Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young lordlings are no rarity at Cheam, one of whose former headmasters habitually underlined the prerogatives of birth by addressing the sons of commoners as "my child," the sons of peers as "my dear child," and young peers in their own right as "my darling child." As for the young Duke and heir to the throne, the word has gone round to all his 92 young schoolmates to call him plain "Charles...
...technical jargon, each delegate had his own mental case histories of poverty-crippled children back home with grotesquely protruding bellies, infected livers, horny thickening of the palms of their hands. Such symptoms are the result of the starchy foods (yams, corn meal, potatoes, plantains, rice) that make up a child's daily fare throughout large areas of Latin America. But last week Dr. Nevin Scrimshaw of the U.S. proudly exhibited a greyish meal that offered a promise of real help...
...Cornell. The aim is to teach the student a language not by making him analyze it, but by placing him, as far as possible, in an environment dominated by that language so that he may assimilate it almost unconsciously, much as he did with his native language as a child...
...storm an Indian leans, and with his mattock chops a hopeless furrow which the wind fills silently behind him."Who digs the land,"the Indians say, "digs his own grave." He pauses, arrested in a Mexican Angelus. Somewhere in this howling world, in a bare mud hut, his child is crying in a basket, and by a tiny fire his wife slaps stolidly at a small tortilla that will be his only supper. The heart of the Indian fills with dread. If he cannot make some money soon, they will all starve. If only he had a cow, he could...
...tries to sell his turkey; the patron throws the bird out the door. Desperate, man and wife sit down by the roadside, and he tells her he must go away. Somewhere there must be work to do-or things to steal. In silence she suckles the child. His face softens. The spring of life is flowing still...