Word: diaper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...monastic scholar, dedicated to his work, or the brilliant cosmopolitan researcher and man-about-town? Oh no; it's the faculty drudge who barely manages to get out a small paper and an insignificant book review in between taking care of the furnace and changing the baby's diaper. He's your fringe man. It's a matter of principle," he said...
...marriages' are touchingly beautiful." Reported one of the young mothers, 19, preoccupied with both schoolbooks and a six-month-old boy: "Since the baby arrived, my husband and I have had no free time and have been forced to do all our homework at night. Marriage, pregnancy and diaper-changing cannot be combined with schoolwork. We regard the Scripture teacher as a fine and cultured person, but we definitely oppose his moral view. It belongs to another age." Both she and her husband, reported the girl, have decided to keep on studying. Their prospective careers: teaching...
Herbert Yemon Cartwright Jr. used to run a diaper laundry service. Eight years ago he was elected mayor of Galveston, and set out to prove that cleanliness is for diapers, not for Galveston...
...Rivets & Diapers. The list of McCardell firsts stretches back 20 years. She was the first to modernize the dirndl skirt (1938) and the first to use trouser pockets and pleats in women's clothes (1938). She was the first with the widely copied "Monastic" dress, a full and shapeless forerunner of the pleated Grecian sheath and all the other unwaisted dresses. It seemed to have no form. But when it was belted on, it did great things for the female figure. It was McCardell who first started using blue-jean stitching for design in rough denims...
...play with the baby, the way he had with the goats. So they kept it in a lean-to in a secret part of the woods, and fed it on stolen milk ("You got to wet its whistle," Harry explained, "near every hour of the day"), and changed its diaper the way Harry had seen his mother do with Davy. At night Harry slipped out of the window when everyone was asleep, and went to the lean-to "to protect [the baby] from the wolves...