Word: six-year-old
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...Russia. Three days before the meeting opened, the Kremlin had called in the French and British ambassadors, handed them similar notes. Said the one to France: Russia would not "accept" the rearming of West Germany planned by the Atlantic pact powers. Furthermore, France was "responsible" for undermining the six-year-old Franco-Soviet non-aggression pact. Meanwhile, the Communist German East zone Volkskammer (Parliament) unanimously decreed penalties up to death by beheading for all Germans-West as well as East zone-who supported German rearming...
Automobile dealers whose sales had been crimped by credit controls last week discovered a way to loosen the clamp. Under the six-year-old G.I. bill they found that veterans who use cars in their business can buy them with Government-guaranteed loans, with up to two years to repay. Dealers who hadn't known or cared about the law before began offering "eligible veterans" new cars for as little as $257 down and $45 a month, about two-thirds the payments required under credit-controlling Regulation...
...independence beckons but family ties still bind. At 23, Sally is the sort of girl people call "delightfully feminine," though they wonder why she doesn't marry. Marjorie, 17, shows more troubling symptoms: a vague intellectual restlessness combined with a fondness for make-believe play with her six-year-old brother Paul...
...best things in A Family Romance are incidental to its story, for Author Pollet is far more gifted at showing adolescent innocence than adult griminess. The book has appealing glimpses of camaraderie between an adolescent girl and a six-year-old boy, of young people carrying on their conversations through blocks of embarrassed silence, of a young girl expressing her innocent confidence that she can take love or leave it alone. ("It's all right to be in love, as long as you don't spend too much time at it.") Though a bit wobbly with grownup troubles...
Drawing Ballots. Distribution day dawned brightly. Ente Sila workers had been up all night to complete the papers for the drawing. The villagers gathered in the square. A beribboned six-year-old girl dipped her hand into a box and drew out the first name: Vincenzo Nocella. But Nocella had not come to the meeting because he did not believe the land would ever be distributed. Patient, tired Ente Sila functionaries smiled. Then the child drew a plot for Nocella. The crowd was sharply attentive...