Word: scaldingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moments, instantly and strikingly identifiable, that it fleshes out the political fact. The turbulence of war, the patterns of black-white intimacies, the historically right setting, all these are fit ingredients for such a story. And finally, most important, the touches of unstammering, heroic rhetoric to scald the benches into the grip of the ultimate social and political meanings...
...There is no indication that the ancient ritual of child beating has been mitigated by modern theories of child raising. Parents continue to kick and punch their children, twist their arms, beat them with hammers or the buckle end of belts, burn them with cigarettes or electric irons, and scald them with whatever happens to be on the stove. Gathering documentation from 71 hospitals, a University of Colorado team headed by Pediatrician C. Henry Kempe found 302 battered-child cases in a single year; 33 of the children died, 85 suffered permanent brain damage. An accompanying Journal editorial predicts that...