Word: old
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact was that Joe's boys were unfit for normal school life. Despite tireless coaching at home, eight-year-old Larry had only a halting vocabulary of no words; 13-year-old Donald could barely dress himself. They were tragic "in-betweens," not quite eligible to enter even Denver's special schools for retarded children, yet not so hopeless that they had to be shut away in a state institution. Said stouthearted Joe, after his last turndown: "If there's no school 'that can help my kids, by golly I'll build one myself...
...weeks passed, Laradon Hall began to win a few small victories. It cured nine-year-old Billy of pyromania by letting him burn the rubbish each day, until gradually ("Aw, I don't wanna") he lost his interest in lighting fires. Another boy had a mania for stealing keys. So Mrs. Calabrese bought a whole batch of keys for Harold and gave him one whenever he deserved a reward. Now Harold has a pile of keys and has stopped stealing them...
...clearly retarded ones had to be taught to wash and feed themselves, and to understand such simple instructions as "Please close the door." For them there were courses in handicrafts, exercises to improve muscle coordination. For those less retarded but held back by emotional disturbances, e.g., a ten-year-old who vomited whenever he became excited, there were courses in reading and writing, and patient guidance...
Three Skyrockets have been built. One has cracked up; the remaining two have been used as flying laboratories in the hands of two redoubtable old men of the air: the Navy's Captain William Virginius Davis, 47, and Douglas' test pilot, Gene May, who is 45 and a grandfather...
...first bad news had come from the Air Force, which for four years has been DDTing the marshes near Cocoa, Fla. with signal success. But this year, massed mosquito formations roared out of the swamps once again to puncture young & old. The Air Force fought back with more DDT, but it could not regain command of the air. The Department of Agriculture discovered that the Air Force defeat was due to a new, tough breed of mosquitoes...