Word: clem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their best luck in the four heats at Coast Guard where they had three qualifiers. MIT's Spoon took revenge for his earlier loss in squeezing by Putnam in one heat, but the Crimson co-captain also qualified in finishing second. John Bowers placed second in his heat and Clem Wood tied for second...
...also won the Geiger Trophy on Sunday with Tufts and the University of Rhode Island also ahead of Harvard. Putnam with John Dodge and Brownlee with Doug Libby took third and fifth respectively in the two dinghy divisions. John Bowers was third in the Finn Class, while Middendorf, Clem Wood, and White finished second in the sloop class...
...four months Clem screamed whenever he was bathed, and at six months he invariably yelled at the sight of a spoon nearing his mouth. When he was two years old he screeched while being dressed, and at seven he shrieked for half an hour after failing to hit a ball as far as he wanted to. Yet he was not sick, retarded, psychotic or even the victim of mishandling by his mother. He was simply what used to be known as a difficult child, and chances are that he was born that way. So, at least, believe Psychiatrists Alexander Thomas...
After 15 years of research, the three doctors conclude that most babies can be placed in one of three categories that mothers were using long before child psychology became popular: difficult, slow-to-warm-up or easy. Like Clem, all difficult infants (about one in ten) react intensely to everything: instead of soft crying, an enraged howl; instead of quiet chuckles, uncontrolled laughter, sometimes ending in a paroxysm of hiccups. Eating and sleeping schedules are irregular, and everything new requires long periods of difficult adjustment. Easy children-the most numerous category-are regular in habit, sunny in mood, quick...
...fiercely resent. The rush to the flag, Harvard Professor of Sociology Martin Lipset suggests, is a symptom of tribalism. Thus in a matter of months the hardhats have constituted themselves as a new militant fraternity in American life. "That's my flag they're burning," a carpenter named Clem Perke said in defense of a parade of 15,000 hardhats two weeks ago in Baltimore. "Look back at the Depression. I came here from the Pennsylvania coal mines. We had plenty to demonstrate about, but we didn't. We just worked harder...