Word: childless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indianapolis last week Garbage Collector Noah Bowman reported one day's take: one unopened 24-lb. sack of flour, one whole cantaloupe, half a chicken, an unopened loaf of bread, an 8-lb. slab of bacon. Worst offenders: childless couples, who cut two pieces out of a pie and discard the rest. Worst periods: after holidays...
Meanwhile, the AVC Housing office reports itself defuged by requests for space. Seventy childless couples, plus 15 more who have children, are seeking living quarters in the Cambridge area. According to John A. Quisenberry '46, chairman of the housing group, "the situation is very dark" and probably will not improve until February...
Bogotá beggars are efficient, too. They avoid jurisdictional disputes by an agreement allotting favorite spots (church doors, hotels, markets), have a system of renting children to childless professionals...
...California readers, for instance, was moved to write us recently about a story (The Vanishing Family) in TIME'S (Feb. 17) Medicine Department reporting that one-seventh of all U.S. couples are childless and that half of this childlessness is voluntary. She said that she did not like children, was childless by choice, and looked forward to a serene old age in a childless home...
...mother of two small boys, I find it hard to distinguish between pity and contempt when I read a statement like Mrs. Elmore's -"I am childless from choice" [TIME, March 10]-pity because she will never know or understand the pride and great happiness that can come only from watching one's own children grow and develop; contempt for her intolerance and ignorance and unsurpassed selfishness...