Word: six-month-old
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...reshuffling, which was generally applauded, came at a time when voters all over Britain were showing their dissatisfaction with Churchill's six-month-old Tory government. In a new wave of local elections, the Labor Party won control of 101 borough councils and cut sharply into Tory majorities in many others. In the past month, Laborites have gained a net of 546 local government seats; the Tories have lost a net of 501. Far from panicked by the trend, the Prime Minister took the occasion to announce that he was buttressing his cabinet for "three or four years...
...think this points out very adequately the inadvisability and unfairness of competitive education for children. As pointed out, an educational system which forces children between ten and twelve years of age to take an examination to decide . . . their academic future, is like prophesying the racing ability of a six-month-old colt from its forced performance round a field. Neither the child nor the colt is sufficiently mature to show his true ability...
...casual prostitute and drug addict, Nancy nonetheless has an implacable loyalty to children. Better a dead child than a neglected or abandoned one, she feels. When Temple gets ready to snatch up her six-month-old daughter and run off with Pete, she finds the infant smothered to death in its crib. This brings Temple, screaming, to her senses, and Nancy, serene, to the gallows...
...corner of a converted schoolhouse brought $30 a month from a sergeant and his family of three. The building leaks badly, there is little heat, and the sagging roof is so low that it is impossible to stand except in the center of the room. EUR][ One half of an abandoned garage was rented to a sergeant and his family for $50 a month. There was no bath, no toilet, no water. When a rat bit off the index finger of the sergeant's six-month-old baby, the landlady refused to let the sergeant's wife...
...six-month-old agreement between the Roman Catholic bishops of Poland and the Communist Polish government broke down last week. In a recent letter to President Boleslaw Bierut, just made public, Primate Archbishop Stefan Wyszynski and Adam Cardinal Sapieha set forth a long list of grievances accumulated since the peace pact was signed...