Word: moms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also redefined concepts that have become fogged with overuse and misuse. The educators have shown that academic freedom is not a shield for subversives; it is an integral part of free enterprise--a term which everyone mumbles in the same breath as "mom's apple pie" and fundamental Americanism. They have explained the meaning of faculty tenure, a concept which seems to confuse the public, by comparing it to the tenure of a judge. A professor must be able to teach, securely removed from monetary and social pressure which might force him to hew a fixed line. The university...
...winner in his never-ending war with the exasperated adults who surround him. For example, he can easily undo both his mother and her tea guest by standing between them with a fur coat draped over his arms and blurting out: "I showed Mrs. Taylor your new fur coat, Mom, but she didn't turn green like you said she would...
About the first time any parent in Princess Anne, Md. heard about it was when one little boy returned home after an especially hard day in the seventh grade. "Mom," he announced, "I kissed eleven girls today." At first, the boy's mother paid little heed, but as her son began describing his exploits, she sat up and took notice. He had kissed eleven girls, said he, because his science class had been given over to a game of post office...
...Rogers mounted and put Trigger through some of his famous paces, e.g., bowing and hula-hula prancings. "This happens to be Trigger's first appearance in church," Rogers told the crowd of youngsters. "He should have started long ago . . . Here you learn how to love one another and mom and pop." He led Trigger into the church annex, posed for pictures (Trigger on haunches). After the horse had been led outside again, Rogers continued his remarks. "This is God's day," he said, "and I'm tickled to death to do things for Him." Attendance...
Author Jensen ends his picture parade in the middle of a counterrevolution with Psychiatrist Marynia Farnham calling women "the lost sex," Philip Wylie calling "mom" a "jerk," and another critic jabbing at modern women who "regard their husbands not as mates, or men, or even mice, but as mats." But even if modern woman heeds her modern critics and beats a retreat for home, warns Author Jensen, she will never again make it her only beat...