Word: childlessness
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...snotty and equally money-minded mother of an ever-expanding obnoxious brood of "no-neck monsters." The younger son, Brick, is an ex-athlete fallen into alcoholism, who refuses to become involved with anyone, including his wife Maggie. She is thus not only sexually frustrated and childless but, born into poverty, also fearful of losing the wealth into which she married. On the sidelines is the Reverend Tooker, a local clergyman adept at sniffing a fat bequest for a church memorial...
Thus last week a pampered philodendron was placed on the road to recovery from root disease. The indoor plant, belonging to a childless couple, had been wilting, yellowing and defoliating. Worse, when its owners-they prefer the term parents-talked to it, the philodendron would not listen. They gave it fertilizer treats, bathed it with the sun lamp and, fearing insect infestation, sponged its leaves with Baby-Wipes dipped in Scotch. Finally, in despair, the philodendrophiles called Karl Robinson's Mother Nature Hospital. At last report, the plant was out of intensive care and listening again...
Annoying Fault. Childless and hobbyless, Wilson has loved the law only slightly longer than his wife; their golden anniversary comes in September. His age has hardly slowed him down. Since a heart attack two years ago, he has had a chauffeured Cadillac (license JJW 2), and because of a 1967 cataract operation he initially wore dark glasses under the hearing's TV lights. "He looked like the Godfather," joked one of his partners; though his eyes hurt without the glasses, he junked them "because I don't want to appear like I'm hiding behind anything...
...continental high life, but they give it only a faded ratty elegance. Glass ornaments flash everywhere -- the powder jars and pin bowls, gold cherubs and a chandelier that looks like an upside-down wedding cake are cheap reminders of now hollow dreams. For at 70, she is unmarried, childless, and penniless, and the mauve colored gauze through which she views her world cannot protect her from...
...they give it only a faded ratty elegance. Her dresser-gleams with mirrors, powder jars and pin bowls; glass ornaments flash ever-where--curlicue knicknacks, gold cherubs, and a chandelier like an overturned wedding cake, are cheap reminders of now hollow dreams. For at seventy, she is unmarried, childless, and penniless, and the mauve colored gauze through which she views her world cannot protect her from...