Word: infantability
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...winter sports season is still in its infant stage, and the natural tendency of any coach at this time is to be ultra-conservative about prospects. This tendency applies even more to freshman coaches, since many of them have only seen their boys for about two weeks...
Chiefly responsible for the educational project is Cass D. Alvin, the Steelworkers' western regional educational director. Alvin likes to cite a page of labor history as the wrong way to cope with the problem: England's igth century "Luddites" tried to stem the infant Industrial Revolution by smashing up the new machinery. Says Alvin: "We could kick these new electronic machines like the Luddites did, but they wouldn't give a damn...
...Over the centuries, many groups upheld this view (as against infant baptism, which became generally accepted in Christendom), among them the 3rd century Donatists, some of the 12th century Petrobrusians and Waldensians, the 15th century Bohemian Brethren. It was not until the Reformation that the issue really became heated, with the rise in the 16th century of the Anabaptists (literally, Re-Baptizers), a collection of sects that all opposed the baptism of infants, but that also opposed, variously, oaths, military service and the holding of public office. The sects were ruthlessly put down, but some (the Mennonites and Hutterites) regained...
Ingalls said he drew his conclusion in part from recent studies he had made with associates at the Health School on a group of mothers of mongoloid babies. In the past 15 years many scientists have also shown that certain infant deformities were the result of German measles, respiratory accidents, and other non-genetic physical injuries to pregnant mothers, Ingalls pointed...
...mass of people on the streets are mostly peasants in padded jackets, minor bureaucrats in bell-bottomed trousers and women workers in potato-sack dresses. One in ten carries a small bundled-up infant. To see Russians smile, the visitor must observe them playing with their children in the parks of culture and rest. In the back streets, scores of old men and women shuffle along hopelessly, but although they may look like beggars, it is unlikely that they will ask a recognizable foreigner for alms...