Word: spooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still boyish-looking at 43, Jack Kennedy has the gemlike qualities?highly polished, but hard and rather cold?sometimes found in men of silver-spoon birth, Ivy League education and high ambition. Once he decided to be a politician, he set for himself the highest possible political goal, the presidency, and he marched toward it with machinelike efficiency. For him, the House and Senate were not so much arenas of action as steppingstones to his goal. In the Senate he was conspicuous not for achievements of legislation or leadership but for youth, good looks, wealth, and the aura he exuded...
Leathery, blue-eyed Victor L. Butterfield, 56, is no man to blame The Bomb or The Affluent Society. The main cause of student lethargy, says he, is the "paternalistic" U.S. system of spoon-fed lectures and assembly-line grading. "We treat students more as prep-school boys than as adults under guidance...
Women and children were hanged for petty theft. In 1801, for example, Andrew Brenning, 13, was hanged for breaking into a house and stealing a spoon...
...palace at Rabat, Morocco's genial King Mohammed V was caught in a heartwarming domestic moment, as he fed a breakfast dainty to his dainty youngest daughter, Princess Amina, 5. Though plenty of gold and silver tableware was on hand, Mohammed ladled out the victuals with a wooden spoon...