Word: infantalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barely four years ago, General Dynamics seemed the paragon of the U.S. defense business, a precocious infant that had come from nowhere to rack up earnings of $44 million on sales of $1.6 billion -figures that put it neck and neck with long-established Boeing. But by 1960, the company's once respectable profits had turned into a $27 million loss, and in 1961 the company's net losses hit $40 million in the first nine months alone. But the most staggering statistic about General Dynamics was that in its efforts to break into the commercial jet market...
Though the Magi brought gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to the Infant Jesus, the early church for centuries forbade or at least discouraged gift giving at Christmas; the Puritans, for example, banned both religious and secular Christmas celebrations as pagan in inspiration. Even today the seasonal exchange of gifts in many lands is made on Twelfth Night (when the Magi reached Bethlehem) or on New Year's Day. Still the early symbols-the pre-Christian gift giving, the evergreen as a mark of enduring life-became stubborn concomitants of the Christmas observance...
...that war has finally stopped in China has brought improvements, and would have done so under any regime. Undeniably, in their twelve years in power, the Reds have accomplished some badly needed reforms in Chinese society. An elementary knowledge of hygiene has spread, preventable diseases have been largely controlled, infant mortality has been greatly reduced, women have been released from the iron dominance of husband
...Princeton astronomer-mathematician, Lovett scoured the world's great universities to get ideas for infant Rice. He brought in such scholars as Julian Huxley, made sure that his first 77 freshmen ("these torchbearers of the sun dawn") meant business. When only 39 students stayed the route to graduation, Rice was permanently stamped as the toughest school in Texas...
Comparative studies based on life expectancy and rate of infant mortality, Rutstein observed, indicate that the health status in the United States is not as high as in other countries, and that there are great variations within the U.S. itself...