Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...families wrote occasionally, but then it became wiser not to. Recently in Canton, Hsiao Ming took advantage of relaxed Communist exit rules, went south to Hong Kong for a visit. She had to leave one member of the family behind, her husband. But she brought along her child Li Po, who just had finished his first term in the state-run kindergarten. He wore a dark blue Lenin uniform and, for a boy of five, a preternaturally grave expression...
...heart of Sherwood Forest, sober-sided Harold Macmillan, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, took corona in mouth and bow in hand, tried to hit a short-range bull's-eye with a suction-cupped arrow in an attempt to promote the sale of his brain child, a savings bond that pays no interest, but offers investors a chance to win ?1,000-a financial stratagem known to Britons as "having a flutter on Harold." Nobody's archery was good enough to win the prize-one ?1 bond. Southpaw Archer Macmillan, perhaps with sporting intent, missed the target...
...ready to do its full part. Gerontology and geriatrics* have not grown up enough. Said Dr. Edmund Vincent Cowdry, anatomist at St. Louis' Washington University: "The emphasis is going off youth and going on age. Geriatrics is where pediatrics was 40 years ago. It has been the unwanted child. But grandmother must have her specialist, too. It took medicine centuries to discover that the infant is not just a little man, and to set up the specialty of pediatrics. It has taken longer for medicine to learn that the elderly person is not just...
...quantities of whisky, cheats at cards, and wenches indiscriminately. The slow trip down Britain's east coast becomes, in part, Lieutenant Falconer's uneasy odyssey in search of his own soul-a search begun when he learns that a chance bed companion is to bear him a child, and completed when he walks along the littered beach at Normandy. "All along the shore, bodies-beautiful, naked, torn and shattered bodies, a head here, an arm, a leg there-protruded like marbles from the sapphires of the sea and the golden desert of the sands, and the sunshine...
Born. To Yvonne de Carlo, 34, sultry brunette cinemactress (The Captain's Paradise), and Robert Drew Morgan. 41, Hollywood stunt man: their first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Bruce Ross. Weight...