Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evident in its pages was a striking departure from the spirit of 1946. After a decade in which the gross national product soared from $232 billion to $412 billion and real per-capita income after taxes rose 20% (to an average $1,705 for every man, woman and child in the nation), Ike's No. 1 economic worry was not unemployment but inflation. And the economic responsibilities he stressed were not those of the Federal Government, but those of businessmen, labor leaders, workers...
...parachutists made a night descent on Omodhos, a shiny white vineyard village of small, neat houses and narrow cobblestoned streets. Nothing looked more innocent. In the cottage of the village constable the parachute lieutenant walked in on a family scene: before a blazing fire the constable was helping a child with his homework while his wife tended a baby in a cradle. Another child crawled on the floor, and a grandmother was setting the table. But the lieutenant noticed that the fire had only just been lit. Kicking it apart, he found that the hearthstone moved. Underneath was a shaft...
White said that "Massachusetts is the laughing stock of the more enlightened states, because we have to fight to obtain experimental animals. Which is more important," he asked, "a beloved child in our community or a stray dog or cat about to be killed." The proposed bill would enable research institutions to obtain for experimental purposes stray dogs and cats which are doomed to die in pounds...
...child too poor...
...incinerator of so many lost dreams that is called ash-tray"), and a weakness for the repeated metaphor that finds nights, houses, clouds and tears all to be the color of blood. Yet the best are written with undeniable charm, and in much the same headlong fashion that a child runs...