Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critical area of foreign policy where he has been most vulnerable to criticism from Democratic dissidents, Humphrey last week did start staking out his own independent positions. He was not so much challenging the Administration as acceding to a new view...
...join the force. (By contrast, New York has cut an inch off its previous 5 ft. 8 in. minimum to attract more Puerto Ricans.) One Mexican-American says that a riot in L.A.'s Latin ghetto would have been inconceivable two years ago; now, he fears, "things might start to blow around here...
Outmoded administrative systems that force every recruit to start off in the lowest rank discourage the educated and the enterprising from becoming policemen. Every would-be police chief has to serve a menial apprenticeship; no one from outside, regardless of his qualifications, can come in at the middle. Some, like Reddin, favor lateral entry, commonplace in every other organization, but none have succeeded in changing the ossified structure of the police establishment. Pay is equally out of date; the median for patrolmen in big cities...
...social life. She cannot rush home every time the baby needs to be nursed. Besides, most women nowadays are too embarrassed to nurse in public, although La Leche offers advice on how to do it modestly. If women overcome this hesitation, they still do not know how to start the milk flowing. Most obstetricians could not care less; their responsibility ends with the delivery. Most pediatricians have been inadequately trained. And nurses in lying-in wards are much more eager to put a bottle in the baby's mouth to keep it quiet than to trundle the infant back...
...Leche's scores of thousands of members, the routine is neither difficult nor unfamiliar. Their rule: let the baby suck to start the milk flow; the more it wants and sucks, the more plentiful the flow will be. There are exceptions, as there have been throughout history, when wet nurses have been in demand: some women simply cannot breastfeed. La Leche tries to reassure such women so that they will not feel guilty. There is no point in making a cult of breast feeding,* and La Leche advocates it only for those who both can and want...