Word: tenderfooted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arizona, Democrat Ernest McFarland, bumped out of the U.S. Senate by Republican Tenderfoot Barry Goldwater in 1952, leaped from Arizona's governorship to the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator by 104,000 to 39,000 over weak opposition-a show of strength that for the first time rated him a chance to beat Goldwater in November...
...make the best reading. She has, as a critic once said of Edmund Wilson, "pencil, pad and purpose." Six years ago Novelist Ferber worked up some travel notes and impressions into Giant (TIME, Sept. 29, 1952), a novel about Texas that was as close to the mark as a tenderfoot's lariat, but waspish enough to infuriate Texans and amuse the citizens of the other 47 states. After Texas what? Alaska, naturally, and it is a safe bet that Edna Ferber's Ice Palace will be must reading all the way from Seattle to the DEW line...
Today, under Chief Scout Executive Arthur A. Schuck, 62, a Scout careerman, U.S. membership is over 4,500,000. The long pull from Tenderfoot to Eagle now involves programs in electronics, mechanics and TV repair and a course in atomic energy will soon be added. But for all the changes in the official Boy Scout Handbook for Boys, the basic aims of the movement are still those stated by Baden-Powell: "To help in making the rising generation, of whatever class or creed, into good citizens...
...Literally, cactus plants, used to distinguish the supposedly tougher natives from the tenderfoot newcomers...
Earned Advancement. The instruction takes longer than it would with non-handicapped boys. In the two years since the troop was founded, all the boys have earned Tenderfoot ratings. A few are Second Class Scouts. The most significant thing about their accomplishment, Scoutmaster Alan Conley believes, is that all of them have genuinely earned their advancement: the program has been modified, but not simplified, for their benefit. "We have learned," says Conley, "that these boys crave responsibility. Before, they were always treated like babies. No one gave them responsibility because it was felt they did not want it. Now they...