Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boys is, in fact, mimicked and laughed at behind his back," recalled George Orwell in Such, Such Were the Joys. James Hilton took the opposite view. The schoolmaster who thought himself mocked was actually loved. Orwell's essay may have been what the public needed to know. But Hilton's 1934 novel was what it wished to read. Goodbye, Mr. Chips rapidly passed from sentimental classic bestseller to sentimental classic movie. In the title role, Robert Donat won an Academy Award, and Mr. Chips achieved legendary status as the old master of the schoolboy soul...
...told her that she had had me fooled for most of the summer. "I know," she said. "That's one of the reasons I decided not to have it done in Boston. I was talking to a friend and he told me if I walked into a psychiatrist's office here looking even relatively self-assured, I would get turned down. I wasn't going to lie and say I was about to commit suicide. And I didn't have any record of mental illness. Besides, I heard that there was a chance that they might contact my parents...
...talked for a while about the summer and about school. Then Marty got back on the subject. "You know, Tim and I have been talking about getting married. But he's said to me that if I marry someone else, I should be really careful about telling him that I've been through this. My friends have said that anyone who would hold it against me would be an incredible hypocrite. But I can't help thinking, who will have...
...Betsy described a typical interview with a woman coming for advice about an unwanted pregnancy. "At least 50 per cent of them say that they weren't using a contraceptive at the time of conception. My response is, 'Why not? Didn't you know you could get pregnant?' Many say that it was the first time they had had intercourse without using one, or that it was the first time they had slept with anyone. They can't believe that one time...
...that they can use the rhythm method as an effective means of contraception. I've had professional men in their 30's and 40's come in here saying that they've used the rhythm method for ten years and suddenly their wives have become pregnant. They don't know that it's almost assured that sooner or later, usually sooner, the rhythm method will fail...