Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smoked cigarettes dribbled down the front of his blue suit, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson faced up to a drumfire attack on defense policy directed at him by Democrats on the Senate's airpower subcommittee. Sometimes he answered questions with the weary patience of a father harassed by a child; sometimes he wandered unresponsively, while senatorial patience frayed. But always-with remarkable success for Engine Charlie Wilson-he fought to keep a curb on his shop-foreman's tongue...
...reported six to one for reform. Henceforth, it recommended, Pakistani males should get permission for second marriages from special new courts of matrimony; they should prove themselves able to support two families; they should not marry again "merely ... to marry a prettier or younger woman." The commission added that child marriages and the sale of brides should be outlawed, and that women and men should have equal rights of divorce. As of now, Pakistanis can divorce their wives in Islamic fashion by saying "I divorce thee" three times in their presence...
...Duke of Edinburgh, reported London's Evening Standard, has bloomed as an inventor. His brain child: a 58-ft. tablecloth containing "hundreds of yards of wire sandwiched between layers of felt and latex." When plugged in, the electrified tablecloth, spread over the royal board in the royal yacht Britannia, will provide power for electric candelabra placed anywhere upon...
...Your Throats." Thereafter, the Manhattan press did its best to cooperate. Most papers printed little Peter's formula daily, relayed messages from the Weinbergers to the kidnaper (with no apparent success), ran detailed descriptions of the missing child. But the damage had already been done. Interviewed by three reporters, Peter's sobbing mother cried out: "I could cut all your throats." Fumed Chief of Detectives Stuyvesant Pinnell: "We would have got a hell of a lot further if there had been no interference from the press...
...such an education, both the traditional and the progressive school are unsuited. From his earliest years the child must learn "the value of participation . . . He should learn to regard himself as a constructive critic [of the school] who not only dares to question the rules and program of a given classroom, but who also is expected to offer suggestions for improvement." Authority rests not so much with the teacher as with the group. "The teacher himself may belong to the minority−a position which he will gladly accept and for which he will be respected . . . The only acceptable definition...