Word: cribbing
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State ownership of industry-which Winston Churchill called that "burglar's jemmy to crack the capitalist crib" -is the goal most commonly associated with a Socialist administration. Tory scaremongers even claim that Labor already has a "shopping list" of 104 companies it plans to nationalize. However, after bitter argument the Labor Party has abandoned its longtime commitment to public ownership of the economy's "commanding heights." It plans now only to renationalize steel, which was partially restored to private enterprise by the Tories, and Britain's trucking industry...
Invented in 1944 for his daughter Debbie, Skinner's box is a combination crib-playpen that a baby can call home for as long as two years. It has Plexiglas windows, and inside, the temperature is kept at 80° or so and the humidity at 50%. The baby is free of confining clothes and "prisonlike" crib bars. He wears only a diaper, sleeps on a trampoline-like plastic mesh that drains away any leakage. The idea is to let him thrash about, play better and develop faster. Pop saves on baby clothes, and with less lifting, laundry...
Hallstein showed none of this side in his speeches last week. Instead he appealed for understanding. At Omaha's Creighton University, he complained: "Sometimes it has seemed that our Community was being torn out of its crib and being asked to shoulder the burdens of a man. Sometimes it has seemed that even our friends were being too impatient to give us time to mature...
...Wolfe's life, except as a scenario for a searching inquiry into the agonizing problems of authorship (taxes, how to get the highest bid for movie rights, etc.). Wolfe's autobiographical novels proved him to be socko literary material; why invent a mediocre character when you can crib a good...
...crawled his way through his eleventh month, the White House released some vital statistics on its least conspicuous inhabitant, John F. Kennedy Jr. Weighing in at a "very healthy" 23 Ibs.. John Jr. was already standing up, statesmanlike, in his crib, and had cut seven teeth (four uppers). His disposition, beamed Mother's press aide, Pamela Turnure, was "wonderful"-though a bit too vegetablelike to suit the tempestuous tastes of Sister Caroline...