Word: parently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That is the way the modern Mother Goose would put it. I don't expect the modern Mother Goose to be especially popular with little children who have not yet learned not to like poetry. But it is the parent who buys the book...
...stylized atmosphere and a sardonic inflection, Waltz of the Toreadors could mate humor with horror, lace wormwood with Vichy. Square Root jangles with false notes. Where, again, Williams could make a dynamic-if uncentered-story of Cat, could drive abreast the three themes of a blighted marriage, a parent-and-child relationship and a girl's family-in-law, Square Root cannot drive them tandem...
...about to happen just the same. The Teamsters, having been forewarned that they would be tossed out of the parent federation if Hoffa were elected president (TIME, Oct. 14), proved, by electing Jimmy and his pals, that they had no intention of cleaning their stables. Hopeful that the enormous Teamster economic power would bluff the A.F.L.-C.I.O. into backing down, Hoffa & Co. planned to ask the A.F.L-C.I.O. Executive Council for a year's probation. There was not a chance. For sitting at the head of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. was 63-year-old George Meany, the stocky, onetime plumber...
...with crooks and winking at scandal have been hurled back and forth. Forbes has made the so-called Insurance Scandal a chief point of his campaign. He claims that Democratic state officials were derelict in their handling of the Loyalty Insurance Group investigation. John R. Cooney, president of the parent company of the Loyalty Group, was indicted last May on charges of defrauding the companies of $262,000. He has since pleaded no defense. Forbes finds a "shocking" suggestion of "collusion" between the investigators and Cooney...
...baby when he cries, feed him only at precise four-hour intervals." Spock stepped to the head of the pediatricians who were trying to encourage greater flexibility in baby care. They succeeded too well, he now feels: "Nowadays there seems to be more chance of a conscientious parent's getting into trouble with permissiveness [toward children] than with strictness." Keynote of Spock's latest advice to parents: "Trust yourself." Instinct, he says, prompts most parents to give children the "natural loving care" needed in routine growth. All the emphasis on the child's needs-"for love...