Word: consents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after the first deaths were reported, compared with 21,000 on the previous day. Irritated by what he called the press's "body count" mentality, Dr. Theodore Cooper, HEW's assistant secretary for health, snapped: "Someone, I hear, dropped dead in South Carolina after reading the consent form [required of all those to be inoculated]. Should that be attributed to the swine-flu program...
...later at more palatial quarters in Sweden. Eventually, the old King died, and his grandson, Carl Gustaf, and not Prince Bertil, assumed the throne. The new King decided that his still unmarried uncle had put duty before matrimony long enough. Last week, blessed with his nephew's consent, Prince Bertil, now 64, and Lilian Craig, 61, announced a new phase to their 33-year romance-marriage, on Dec. 7, at Drottningholm Castle near Stockholm...
...Gauld's humiliation and paddling "philosophy" is just child abuse, with or without the parents' "tacit consent." The Hyde School and Mr. Gauld prescribe punishment and embarrassment for troubled children. What they need is love and encouragement...
...kind of monotheism. Since monotheism is the modern preference, Akhenaten is now considered to have been one of civilization's heroes. But at the time his religion was very bad politics. Akhenaten failed; the ancient gods won: The surprise is not that Allen Drury, the Advise and Consent man, has written a book about Akhenaten-a pyramid could be made of books about him and his queen Nefertiti-but that his viewpoint is political...
...school is almost as rigorous as that of a Marine boot camp. Many of the students are troubled, and short-tempered Gauld treats them like a drill instructor faced with a platoon of left-footed recruits. He occasionally slaps and routinely humiliates the kids-with their parents' tacit consent-in a no-holds-barred effort to toughen them up and build their characters. "The rod is only wrong in the wrong hands," Gauld likes to say. When he finds that a student has what he considers a "bad attitude," Gauld may order him to wear a sign saying...