Word: household
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rapt and rambling Hepburn household, no one ever changed the subject when young Kate came into the room: she heard all there was to hear. But freedom had its limits. When his children's squabbles got beyond the control of reason, Dr. Hepburn whacked them all impartially. Kate was spanked until she was nine, when she figured out how to stop the spankings: by taking them without crying...
...strengthen price controls. The President could call on Congress to reverse the "crippling amendments" adopted last spring with Republican support. Truman, who knows how to get votes out of a can of peas, promptly announced that he was "considering" such a call. That brought the inflation issue from the household arts and financial pages to Page...
...life, of a dull, 14-year-old boy. Unable to remember events of the present for more than a fleeting moment, he watches boxing on TV ("That's what I want to do when I grow up"), reads, plays the harmonica and guitar, helps a little with the household chores. Doctors offer little hope for further improvement. But, says his confident mother, Mrs. Mabel K. Werrett: "Love can do a lot, you know...
Sunday Track Meet. Bob's athletic prowess is not entirely an accident of birth. His father, a onetime University of Oklahoma all-state football player, is a general practitioner and Tulare's high-school team doctor. The whole Mathias household has always been dedicated to athletics. Brother Eugene, 24, was a promising high-school football star until his career was cut short by a concussion; Jimmy, 18, is an up & coming decathloner (he finished 19th in the nationals); Patricia, 15, the family hopes, will be an Olympic swimmer...
Last week the man in a hurry announced the biggest deal of his career. Subject to approval by stockholders of both companies, said Nichols, Mathieson Will buy up E. R. Squibb & Sons, $100 million-a-year maker of household drugs, whose brown-labeled bottles and boxes have been standard equipment in medicine cabinets all over the U.S. for nearly a century. If the stock swap (five Squibb shares for three Mathieson shares) is approved by stockholders as expected, the resulting company will be a $300 million giant, sixth biggest chemical company...