Word: childish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gravely Comrade Mao commented: "The atomic bomb is finished. Provocateurs all over the entire world are talking about atomic warfare, and only childish people believe...
...decades since this man, who might have been great, held a stop watch on the Eternal and hurled a childish challenge at God to strike him dead. Could 20 barren years be the answer to that prayer...
...replaced later), cuts and folds back the brain covering, the dura mater, then carefully slices through a measured section of the frontal lobes' white tissue. As the knife cuts the nerve fibers, the patient's tension visibly relaxes. He grows confused, dull, slow in speech, childish...
...Christopher Blake, Hart manages to pad out his play to the conventional length. Although they try mightily to be alternately charming and terrifying, the dreams are almost without exception extremely disagreeable. Hart's attempts to make the first pair of dreams child-like only ends in their being childish; his attempts at pathos in the last two culminate in florid over-acting...
...folk stories that were told to George when he was a Georgia boy. The principal characters include wolves, princesses, witches and giants-none of whom seems far removed from the worlds of Hans Christian Andersen or La Fontaine, all of whom combine to give this collection a childish and curious poetry...