Word: spooning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There are two kinds of millionaires," Mr. De used to say. "The silver-spoon boys and the rabbit's-foot boys." He classed himself with the rabbit-footers...
...among many Texans who stopped last week to recall the vision of the small, strong man with blue eyes, there was the knowledge that there were not two, but three kinds of Texas millionaires: silver spoon, rabbit's foot...
Concerning the present crisis in the Near East, he said that this administration has "spoon fed" Nasser to a position of importance while treating Israel with "cold disdain...
...Walter W. Sackett Jr. (born in 1905) tasted no solid food until he was almost a year old. Nowadays U.S. mothers generally give their babies cereal within three months. To Miami's Dr. Sackett, a general practitioner, this is far too late; babies under his care have a spoon of thin oatmeal or barley when they are but two days old. At ten days vegetables are added; at 14 days, strained meats; at 17 days, strained fruits; at weekly intervals thereafter, orange juice, eggs, soups, mashed banana, custard puddings and "crisp bacon" (though the bacon has to be mashed...
...demand"; he thinks six-hour intervals are fine at first, but that the midnight bottle should be cut out within five weeks, and the baby put on three meals a day. He also says that the baby should be weaned (from either bottle or breast feeding) to the spoon at seven months, and that by ten or twelve months he should be able to "eat almost entirely from the table with the rest of the family...