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Word: childing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...means it. Last week he told Vermonters at Rutland: "I know that Americans everywhere are the same in their longing for peace, a peace that is characterized by justice, by consideration for others, by decency, above all by its insistence on respect for the individual human being as a child of his God . . . We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours . . . so that our sons may stay at home, the products of our toil may be used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Return of Confidence | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

...University of Illinois, President H. Gordon Hullfish of the Public Education Association met with his vice president and solemnly recommended that the P.E.A. disband. In itsheyday in the '50's, it had been a powerful influence on U.S. public education, the standard-bearer for the child-centered school, the soapbox and sounding board for the ideas of John Dewey and his followers. But now, plagued by lack of money and members-as well as by changing educational fashions-the P.E.A. was in effect admitting that, though the nation had gratefully accepted much of what the progressives preached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

Born. To Robert Taylor, 43, veteran Hollywood leading man (Many Rivers to Cross?), and Ursula Thiess, 31, German-born cinemactress (Bengal Brigade): their first child (her third), a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Terrance. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 27, 1955 | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...breaks out, subsides again and finally softens to surrender. Italy's Rossano Brazzi complements Kate's artistry every step of the way. As a married but amorous art dealer, he plays her lover with wit, affection and-when necessary-a matching anger: "You are like a hungry child who is given ravioli to eat," he cries. " 'No,' you say, 'I want beefsteak.' My dear girl, you are hungry . . . Eat the ravioli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jun. 27, 1955 | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

This novel has elephantiasis of the prose glands, but basically it is an anemic little yarn about an English theatrical royal family. Jacy Florister, 27, an ex-child star dangling rebelliously from maternal apron strings, has long wanted to know more about his deceased British father, whom his mother always refers to as "a moron." When poolside sex and liquor kill mother. Jacy quits Hollywood and flies to England to scratch around for his "roots." He not only digs up the Florister clan, a prolific, Barrymoreish brood whose blood lines rival the "begats," but also the girl of his dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old-Fashioned Abandon | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

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