Word: infantalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the international point of view, perhaps the chief fact about the invasion is that, far from strengthening Soviet-style Communism, Moscow has further crippled it. Acting on the flimsiest and most cynical of pretexts, Warsaw Pact troops throttled the infant independence of a state that had reiterated its fidelity to Moscow and Communism. To retain its grip on Eastern Europe?perhaps only for a few years more?the Soviet Union had sacrificed much of its influence among Communist parties elsewhere. Not since the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939 had the Kremlin acted so palpably from fear and weakness. Under...
...ability to practice confidently and well. Health and medical care are as essential to the Negro's joining the mainstream of American life as are education and job opportunities. Indeed health may be more fundamental, and Negroes are sicker than whites from womb to tomb-their infant-mortality rate is double that of whites. A child can learn little, even in a vastly improved school system, if he is suffering -as are many Negroes in both North and South-from borderline malnutri tion, iron deficiency and anemia, as well as assorted infectious and parasitic diseases...
...Many women in foreign countries, seeking to be "modern" like the emancipated American woman, turned from breast feeding to formula. But because of lack of careful sterilization methods, the infant mortality rate rose. Could not the Peace Corps be effective in re-educating these women? How many dollars would be saved in our foreign aid food programs if thousands of these women would return to their older, superior method...
...milk flowing. Most obstetricians could not care less; their responsibility ends with the delivery. Most pediatricians have been inadequately trained. And nurses in lying-in wards are much more eager to put a bottle in the baby's mouth to keep it quiet than to trundle the infant back and forth to Mother every two or three hours...
...dress and manner, Cadogan came to epitomize the "Foreign Office type" during his 42-year career, was a chief wartime adviser to Winston Churchill as head of the Foreign Office from 1938 to 1946, and with peace sounded a note of quiet logic amid all the squabbles at the infant...