Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Drama is the forte of the March of Dimes. While the organization can hardly expect to dramatize the slow and careful final work on Salk vaccine, it can easily bring the tragedy of leukemia, rheumatic fever, or some other disease to the hearts of the people. Responding in this appeal in their generous and sympathetic manner, Americans can help the March of Dimes conquer another health menace...
...later learned, was a psychiatrist, tried to explain. "The only difference between our behavior here and behavior in other countries is that we face the facts," he said. "Young people sleep together everywhere. We don't frown and tell them that it is sinful and expect that that will prevent it. Since they're going to do it anyway, we try to give them training and teach them to be honest. If a girl finds she's going to have a baby, we don't ostracize her, we take care...
...throb of unrest in East Germany can be accurately measured by the flow of refugees to the West. For about a year the number of East Germans seeking sanctuary was a fairly steady 6,500 a month. Last month the number abruptly rose to 8,500. West Berlin authorities expect the figure for April...
...Catholic Educational Association. Ein stein, for one, has been speculating out loud about the "nature and existence of God," and Father Henle objects "to his making an authoritative statement about an absolute. He has no training to talk about the existence ... of God." Philosophy Professor Henle also does not expect "scientists to have sufficient wisdom to make moral judgments about the use of the atomic bomb . . ." ¶ Japan's 1,139-year-old Buddhist Shingon (True Word) sect became the first in the country to form a labor union with priests as members. Twelve shaven-headed apprentice priests last...
...innocence to gnawing discontent. In The Emigrants, a boatload of the discontented are on their way to England and a better break. For most of them, the break comes in the heart. Aboard their slow ship, the islanders have plenty of time to talk things over. Many of them expect to study and learn trades. For, as Higgins, a former stoker, puts it: "Education an' qualification an' distinction is the order o' de day." Higgins is heading for a cooks' school, hopes to wind up in the galley of the Queen Mary. Collis wants...