Word: childishly
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...childish pronouncements on the draft [June 3] of those who would enjoy the harvest without the labor are empty and redundant. Joe College '66 is a sad, disgusting example for my children to have to follow. He tempts me to resign to avoid contributing to the security in which he is free to demur and complain...
...discourage attendance at church ceremonies, Gomulka tried every petty harassment he could think of-from switching train schedules to putting key roads "under repair." Dismissing such tactics as "childish tricks," Cardinal Wyszynski began using a few tricks of his own. When the government clamped down on a 15-mile pilgrimage from Katowice to Piekary by banning walking between the two cities, the pilgrims mobilized everything on wheels and carried passengers on fenders, hoods and rooftops. "If the government respects the rights of the Roman Catholic Church," Cardinal Wyszynski told a huge audience in Piekary, "then we will respect the government...
...paving. Kids are going to climb all over the sculpture anyway; they made sure that it came with built-in handholds to make it easy for them. Ground-level planting beds are sure to be trampled; they were raised so that their rims serve as benches. Smooth surfaces invite childish scribbles; here they are rough to discourage them. Women are afraid of mugging; gay, indestructible plastic-globe lamps replaced the previous dim lighting. Finally, the existing plane trees were saved and new ones added so that even without grass the plaza is green...
Everybody said what a delightful little girl Barbara Follett was. She had big dark eyes and long dark curls and a mind full of charming childish surprises. Her parents were teachers (her father later became moderately well known as Critic Wilson Follett) who, at the time of Barbara's birth (1914), decided that their little girl was much too sensitive and gifted to run with the herd of ordinary children that attended public school. So they kept her at home, where they could be sure she received only the finest instruction: their...
...iambic trimeter is charming, in a wistful, childish way-like something from the bottom of a young Emily Dickinson's trunk. In this case, the poetess is Jacqueline Kennedy, whose two quatrains, titled Dream, are published in the June McCall's. She wrote them...