Word: franker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parents of young drug addicts, suspected or proven, won't profit much from your call for "franker conversation" [Aug. 30]. Have you ever tried to talk to a rebellious teenager? What parents must ask themselves is: "What is missing from my life, that I must use drugs-nicotine or alcohol-myself?" The same ingredients will be missing from the child's life, and he will have every reason to agree with the unspoken message of the parent's example: Life is not worth living without drugs. Parents could ask: Do we love enough...
...appoint favored lawyers to help executors appraise estates for taxes. Appraisers' fees come out of the estate, and are often based on the size of the estate as the appraisers calculate it. As to how appraisers get their jobs, Detroit Probate Judge Ernest C. Boehm could hardly be franker: "Naturally I select men who have helped me in my campaign...
...Freudian days, Author Valentine points out, fathers were often considerably freer and franker with their advice than they are today. He includes Benjamin Franklin's famed advice in 1745, listing the advantages of an elderly mistress: "The pleasure of corporal enjoyment with an old woman is at least equal and frequently superior, every knack being by practice capable of improvement." The Earl of Pembroke, anxious to see his son restore the family fortunes by settling into a good marriage instead of a military career, writes with Georgian bluntness: "I wish you would draw, not your sword, but your precious...
Tension and discontent characterize the Park Avenue "campus," a rather amusing word to most students. A college handbook describes the tall building which comprises "Hunter downtown" as a "vertical campus." Students are franker: "this is like going to school in an office building...