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Word: childing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...formula, or burped a baby. Before taking over Patience Dion's chores, he spent a day watching her performance, gaining the children's confidence and taking copious notes. "I had to have a dry run," he explained. "Most women have nine months to get ready for a child. I had one weekend to get ready for four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bachelor in the Kitchen | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

Blind Spot. How do reporters strike back? In Manhattan, one enterprising newsman carries a child's metal "cricket" toy; it fits snugly into a pocket and emits loud rhythmic pops that drive sound technicians to desperation. In Chicago, a veteran journalist sprinkles his news conference questions with profanity ("Damn it, Senator, what the hell are we gonna do about the farm surplus?"). Another complies willingly when asked to pose for a reporter-at-work shot, then scrawls large obscenities into his notebook under the camera. In Los Angeles, ingenious still photographers-who are on the reporters' side-have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Evil Eye | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...question of what we want to do, this is a fact," a superintendent of schools in a deep South city recently told his teachers, "this is a fact, and we must start now to divest ourselves of any predjudice against the Negro race and to teach each child regardless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Years of Integration--Rancor and Progress | 5/17/1956 | See Source »

...involved in just growing up. In the institute's two rambling buildings, the Gesell staff gave them a battery of IQ, aptitude, physical and psychological tests. But Gesell relied mostly on interviews, not only with the children but with their parents, probed into everything-from the way a child might wriggle to his attitude towards God. The result: a readable and useful chronicle of the normal growing pains of what is too often considered America's problem child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: That Normal Problem Child | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

Gesell's books (800,000 copies in the U.S. alone) have thrown a bright light on what a child goes through when growing up. For those baffled by a baby's crying, Gesell is on hand to say that the baby is only acting his age. For parents disturbed by a child's fidgets or moroseness, he is ready with the assurance that the youngster may only be passing through a standard phase of development. Until now, such guidance has been reserved only for parents' with children under ten. This week, with the publication of Youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: That Normal Problem Child | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

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