Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interview with The Director, a London business magazine. On his countrymen's work habits: "The number of people who are actively constructive are minimal compared to the numbers who are just sitting there." On governmental controls: "People will soon need a license to breathe. I know that in Scotland we had to get permission to block up a fireplace in a cottage. It's unbelievable...
...plenty. Hot on his heels this season have been Erv Hall and Leon Coleman, the second-and fourth-place finishers in the 1968 Olympics. In Philadelphia two weeks ago, Davenport was so relaxed that he seemed to have fallen asleep in the starting blocks. "I don't know what happened," he says, "but all of a sudden everybody was out there ahead of me. From then on it was a game of catch up." Catch up he did. Scissoring smoothly over the first hurdle, he eased past Coleman and then, with three more galloping strides, overtook Hall...
...protect children from their illness, so the older leukemic children tried to protect their parents. "The children who were perhaps the loneliest of all," say the investigators, "were those who were aware of their diagnosis but at the same time recognized that their parents did not wish them to know. No one was left to whom the child could openly express his feelings of sadness, fear or anxiety...
...pathetic consequence of the loneliness of a fatally ill child who has no one with whom he may talk over his concerns because his parents are trying to shield him. The question is not whether to talk about the diagnosis and prognosis, but rather how to let the child know that his concerns are shared and understood." It is important, say Binger and his colleagues, for the child to feel confident that he will not be deserted physically or emotionally and that he will not be told lies...
...moment of wrath, Hamburg State Opera Impresario Rolf Liebermann once exclaimed: "It's the directors who ruin everything. It's never the composer, conductor or singers. The directors are just so many dilettanti who don't know their job. Their only concern is their own vanity...