Word: pots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them form their battalions, captained by the lords of the press, the oil tycoons of Houston, and the moneychangers of Wall Street," he cried. "Let them ride to battle in their motors, forgetful of the day when there was no chicken and there was no pot ..." He wound up with a tinny imitation of Tory Winston Churchill's Dunkirk pledge: "We shall fight them in the cities and fight them in the towns. We shall fight in the counties and fight in the precincts. We shall never surrender . . . We have triumphed before. We shall triumph again...
...along a reeking, raucous, filth-strewn alley in Pusan. He ignored the ragged, swarming children and the whining beggar women, who envied the succulent prize which the old man had in his hand. It was the gamy carcass of an alley cat and it was headed for the cooking pot...
Thirty years ago the main concern of parents was to keep their babies on schedule (regular on the bottle and on the pot), disciplined, and free of germs. Then the rules changed. Babies were to be treated as individuals from birth, cuddling was to be considered as important as cleanliness, and strong discipline a measure that can usually be avoided. Dr. Spock did not pioneer the new attitude, but he explained it better than anyone else by showing how it applies in a hundred commonplace situations, as when a baby takes up the habit of banging his head against...
...prepared for the job. At 56, with 30 years of experience in her steady hands, she is one of the top experts in her field. Her father, a colonel of Austro-Hungarian dragoons, started his children off early in art. Often, after dinner, she remembers, "he would put a pot of flowers or something on the table and we children would all copy it." But Marie Francisca never particularly tried to be a painter. "There were enough finished paintings," she says crisply. "People preferred to have their old paintings restored...
...felt, was neither habit forming nor harmful. But people insisted on acting as though it were bad like getting "lushed" (drunk), and all the squares put you down strong (turned on you). "Those dope stories-all about how you go around killing old ladies when you smoke a pot. It's a real drag. Actually, you just sit around and listen to music. I love Bach. Mozart? No comment. Mendelssohn? How square can you get? I want it modern. I want to go to Sweden where it really wails...