Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...national level, we oppose anti-trust laws, the existence of labor unions, the reliance on social security and the movement toward a welfare state in all its forms including such insidious measures as the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Child Labor...
Protection from Drafts. His parents, John Hague, a blacksmith, and Margaret, came from Ulster's County Cavan _and settled in Jersey City's Horseshoe district (so named because the railroad tracks made a loop there). In a frame tenement house he grew up, a sickly child who became a strong and healthy hypochondriac. During his years of power, he rode on the hottest days with all his car windows closed tight to protect him from drafts. Vain, and fearful of age, he did not like to have photographs taken that showed his bald spot or his wrinkles...
...mental age of an average adult gypsy is thought to be about that of a child of ten. Gypsies have never accomplished anything of great significance in writing, painting, musical composition, science or social organization . . . Society has always found the gypsies an ethnic puzzle and has tried ceaselessly to fit them, by force or fraud, piety or policy, coaxing or cruelty, into some framework of its own conception, but so far without success...
...week's end, CBS - which already has twice as many quiz shows as any other network - gave further evidence of its faith in the potency of unrelated bits of knowledge by announcing the revival of still another Louis Cowan show, Quiz Kids, with a new set of child prodigies under the fatherly wing of Clifton Fadiman, 51, who learned his trade on such question-&-answer shows as Information, Please and This Is Show Business...
...fields of praise." Lying with his paramour Captain Polyxygis thinks: "There's nothing in this world above to equal woman." A young Greek asks Captain Michales' centenarian father: "How has life seemed to you during those hundred years. Grandfather?" "Like a glass of cool water, my child." replies the old man. "And are you still thirsty, Grandfather?" "The graybeard raised his hand . . . 'Woe to him,' he cried in a loud voice, as though he were pronouncing a curse, 'woe to him who has slaked his thirst!' " For Captain Michales himself there is only...