Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have so frequently heard, of someone in a youth group, or someone helping youngsters to use their leisure time, 'Oh, he isn't trained,' or 'She isn't a trained social worker,' said in a tone of contempt. I'm sick to death of trained social workers! I don't mind how many degrees, nor how many hours and years someone has worked for those degrees! What good is he if he hasn't an understanding heart...
...that papa's revenge plot isn't clever; it's that Playwright Williams is so much cleverer throwing monkey wrenches into it. What with the wrong person turning up at the right moment, or the right person at the wrong one, or somebody showing funk or something important disappearing, there is endless gang-aft-agleying, and Someone Waiting seems more an obstacle race than a thrill er. Never believable, in time it becomes something of a bore, and though Leo G. Carroll plays the father with his usual deftness, it is on the audience that he really...
City Councillor John D. Lynch, hearing of the acquisition yesterday, said, "Im glad Harvard isn't neglecting its library...
With reference to Governor Goodwin Knight's comments on President Eisenhower ["This man isn't handsome. He's almost bald"-Jan. 30]: one is reminded of the tactless mother-in-law who, on meeting her new daughter-in-law for the first time, remarked, "Why, you're not at all pretty, are you?" The young bride replied, "No, I am not pretty, so I try to be nice. Have you ever tried that...
...meat and dairy products. Explains Housewife Dorothy Tresley, an M.A. in educational psychology: "I have 4½ sets of dishes and silver: meat, dairy, just a few parve, or neutral pieces, and a special meat set and dairy set for Passover. The girl who comes in to help me isn't Jewish, so I mark my shelves and drawers to keep her from mixing meat and dairy things. Sure, it's more expensive than a tref [nonkosher] kitchen. But if you want something bad enough, you manage...