Word: spooning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disability bill [TIME, Aug. 27]: "A barefaced grab of public money" is right! Why not put all veterans on pension as soon as they're discharged and spoon-feed them for the rest of their lives...
Does the typical private school turn out weak and selfish citizens? "The independen school, like the public high schools in prosperous suburbs, sometimes deals with students whose chief spiritual staff is a silver spoon and whose main intellectual reliance is a successful ancestor . . . Whether the independent school deals with able, mediocre, or limited students, it undertakes to train all in high standards of academic work and performance . . . One great challenge . . . remains: that of finding a means of imparting to all . . . graduates a lasting motivation...
...Silver Spoon. He was a complex child of simple, ambitious parents. "Phoebe Apperson Hearst," wrote Hearstling Winifred Black Bonfils in an official biography, "was born [1842] in an old-fashioned American home, on an old-fashioned American farm in the old-fashioned American State of Missouri. She died in a magnificent Spanish hacienda in California, surrounded with every exotic luxury that the brain of man could conceive, or the heart of woman desire." She married a rough & rowdy Missouri Argonaut named George Hearst, who lost two fortunes, but won three in gold & silver. In San Francisco, on April...
Born: Nov. 15, 1891, in New York; silver-spoon son of Railroad Empire Builder E. H. Harriman who controlled 60,000 miles of the nation's rails, including the Union Pacific...
...ended up in three. The potato spewed over into the central milk-glass division, and the gravy required a skilled juggling act to keep it from flowing over the side. Also there was insufficient height in the ridges to aid in getting the last mouthfuls of applesauce on the spoon (the same will certainly hold true for peas, stewed tomatoes...