Word: infantalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Japanese researchers. As the animals draw near the sweets, they begin an astonishing series of sexual interactions. Some females embrace, rubbing their genitals against each other; males rub rumps, and sometimes briefly enter into what looks like mating. There is plenty of heterosexual sex too, as well as adult- infant encounters and enough mixing and matching to offend every puritanical sensibility. Scientists have observed similar orgies when bonobos converge on fig trees ripe with the sticky fruit...
President Bush seemed to be leaning toward approval, despite the opposition of antiabortion groups who were disturbed that the plan did not provide anything but "comfort care" for premature infants with the least chance of survival. But the President was taken aback, according to several reports, when Robert Powell, a vice president of the National Right to Life Committee, voiced his opposition at a White House photo opportunity several months ago. "If that plan was in effect when I was born in Texas," Powell told the President, "I'd be dead today." As an infant, Powell developed an inoperable tumor...
...birth of Prince William in 1982 brought the couple closer together; Prince Harry's arrival in 1984 did not. Charles wanted a girl and, according to Morton, even objected to the infant's "rusty hair," a Spencer family trait. The couple were now battling constantly. Drama came naturally to Diana. Charles loathed confrontation, and his retreat to a virtually separate life in Gloucestershire, not far from Parker-Bowles, began...
...senior prom. They dated each other exclusively while he was at Harvard and she got her psychology degree from Boston University. Later she earned a master's degree. But since her husband was first elected to Congress in 1976, Tipper -- a nickname her mother gave her as an infant from a favorite lullaby -- has spent most of her time rearing the couple's four children in Arlington, Va. Her main career is momwork: carpooling the kids, cheering at ball games, supervising homework...
...lecture on public morality and cultural health? Last month's sitcom episode in which the Vice President mistook Candice Bergen, a.k.a. Murphy Brown, for the Scarlet Woman of Babylon has already passed into history. A baby out of wedlock! The Veep blew his chance to link this fictional infant to the agenda of the antiabortion lobby -- MURPHY CHOOSES LIFE! -- and scolded the fictional mother for getting pregnant in the first place...