Word: samoa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teeth dearly. Dr. Neumann declares with Spartan glumness: "The incidence of toothbrushes in different countries is in inverse proportion to the incidence of sound teeth, and poor oral hygiene is predominant in areas with exceptionally good teeth." (Dr. Neumann was thinking particularly of a sight he saw in Samoa: a native nurse, who had lost several teeth and had many fillings, trying to teach her kinsmen-all of whom had perfect teeth-how to use a toothbrush...
...Appointed, as new governor of American Samoa, Manhattan Lawyer Phelps Phelps,* onetime member of the New York Senate (1938-42) and World War II war-crimes investigator on the staff of General MacArthur...
...U.C.L.A. and plans to use his training in rural New Mexico; Van Sizar Allen, 24, a Mississippi Negro who will start graduate biology studies at Woods Hole, Mass, this summer; Peter Tali Coleman, 30, a Samoan who plans to take a law degree at Georgetown University, then return to Samoa as a lawyer; and Edward P. Dozier, 34, a Pueblo Indian who will try for a doctorate in anthropology at the University of California. Jock Whitney seemed as pleased as any of the winners. He had already earmarked another $100,000 for next year's Opportunity Fellowships...
...cultures he studied have no taboo against premarital promiscuity, Professor Murdock jumps to the conclusion that the taboo is out of place in this culture. This is not a scientific conclusion on his part. You can't transplant the sex habits of the inhabitants of Truk and the Samoa Islands into Christian industrial America unless you transplant the meaning those sex habits have there ... It may well be that in a society like ours-where we are more insistent than are other cultures that sex have in it mutual affection, a sense of belonging and a sharing...