Word: spanking
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...like parents," he began, "who do not make unreasonable demands upon us." They decidedly do not include the parents who once told him, "Johnny is a very sensitive boy. If he misbehaves, please spank the boy next to him"; or the one who "wanted to know what the school intended to do about her child's studying with the radio going." They do include "parents who make possible for their children quiet, concentrated study . . . It means radios and television sets...
...church was opened at dawn, then crept out with the ornaments wrapped in a parcel under his arm. Said Sanchez last week: "I wanted to build at home an image of the Virgin and Child, decorate them with the jewels, then adore them when they behaved well, and spank them when they behaved badly...
...misunderstanding, as demonstrated in the rest of paragraph eight, lies in his statement that "The FBI does not sanction and is unaware of 'scare' tactics, as alleged." This was, in fact, one of the primary lessons for writing the story. The CRIMSON had hoped that Mr. Hoover would severly spank his errant agents, not rash to their defense. Williams S. Fairfield, (For the Editors...
...spank as a routine punishment, but don't hesitate to use a "gentle slap" if the child gets hysterical and needs it "to refocus his own attention...
...over there was Mrs. Julian Huxley, wife of UNESCO's director-general, in conversation with Jerzy Borejsza, an organizer of the congress. Intellectual Borejsza was as steamed up as Painter Picasso. Said he to Mrs. Huxley: "If my wife behaved at UNESCO as you have here, I would spank her bottom...