Word: spunk
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...business, all right: serving tea to the office help." The Japanese male is proving skittish about marrying the emancipated female. He wants an old-fashioned girl just like the girl who married dear old Dad: thrifty, a good cook, plain rather than pretty, cheerful, obedient, and with "just enough spunk to make life interesting...
...Hundreds of Red mayors have been caught stealing. Organizations for espionage for Russia have been uncovered. There have been changes of wives among Communist leaders. And for some reason the public has not been interested." If Italian newspapers and Italian politicians were to show some of Sogno's spunk, the problem of interesting the public might turn out to be not nearly so difficult...
...give birth to eight infants. Sister Winifred usually advises adoption. Says she: "Not every girl can make it on her own with a baby. Both mother and baby have to go through a lot because some things never can be covered up." When a girl shows maturity and spunk, Sister Winifred sometimes advises her to keep her child. Wrote one such girl last week: "Two years ago, I and my family thought I had ruined my whole life. And here I am with a wonderful husband, a beautiful baby and another on the way. Each night...
...always wonder, when you show caricatures like [De Kooning's] Woman [TIME, June 28] . . . My taste is, no doubt, bourgeois . . . but I don't see why we must be affronted with these things in the public prints. Thank goodness the citizens of Salem, Ore. had the spunk to eject that monstrosity of a statue from their courthouse lawn. What if we had to see things like that everywhere ? Please don't palm them...
...Guatemalans have no spunk!" gibed Señora Arbenz. Four months later, by way of answer, Arbenz and 13 others shot down the commander of Guatemala City's Guardia de Honor fort, won over the garrison and began shelling the capital's other two forts. A lucky hit on a powder magazine won the day spectacularly for Arbenz & friends. He and Colonel Francisco Javier Arana got a democratic constitution written and ran off a free election. It was won handily by Juan José Arévalo, a Guatemalan intellectual just back from exile in Argentina...