Word: right
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prescribed under its British trade name, Distaval, one of the innumerable synonyms for thalidomide.* By whatever name, thalidomide had tragic effects on thousands of the unborn. David was born with neither arms nor legs. Richard has legs but no arms and only a single digit projecting from his right shoulder...
Considering the care required by the children, the settlements were hardly generous. Richard can walk, run and climb stairs. He can write well with his foot-but not with his artificial right hand. He cannot wash or dress himself, go to the toilet alone or brush his hair. Although he is in school and has an IQ of 124, it is doubtful that he can go on to a university. David is immobile, except for rocking movements, and probably will be unemployable all his life...
That notion about the Church being unprogressive is one of those shibboleths that our party must drop. The Church is all right essentially. Get rid of the establishment; get rid of the bishops; get rid of the candlesticks; get rid of the 39 articles; and the Church of England is just as good as any other Church...
...Colonel could be right. Radio stations around the country are trying "rockumentary" programs of "oldie but goodie" rock 'n' roll sounds of the '50s. These draw a surprising response from teen-agers as well as the late-twenties and over-thirties at whom they were originally angled...
...Mission Rebels, a youth group that makes a special point of running its own affairs. "You might do it better," said Towbis, "but that doesn't mean they can do it better that way. We can't do it for them. At best we can ask the right questions." This kind of informed insight was invaluable to the teachers. Said a white professor from Laney College in Oakland: "In seven years of collegiate and university training, this is the first time I ever had any instructor lay it on the line...