Word: toilets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House. In Douglas, Ariz., Mr. and Mrs. Joe Garcia told police that although their neighbors on four sides had noticed nothing suspicious during the Garcia's six-month absence, their house had been stripped of a bed, cupboards, tables, four chairs, a medicine cabinet, windows, plumbing pipes, faucets, toilet, light bulbs and clothesline...
...Gerald Caplan of the Harvard School of Public Health: "We are beginning to realize that there are no rigid prescriptions for successful personality development-as, for example, whether the child should be breast-fed or bottle-fed, given early or late toilet training, disciplined by spankings or not. These things have different meanings in different families. A healthy parent-child relationship is characterized by sensitivity to the child's individual needs at any particular moment [which may be] in the realm of freedom or control...
...Congressmen. Illiteracy is high: one out of every six adult Kentuckians has less than five grades of education. The state ranks 46th in teachers' salaries (with a minimum of $900 a year). As recently as World War II, 14% of Old Kentucky's rural homes had no toilet facilities whatever, 83% had only outdoor privies. Per-capita income is the seventh lowest...
...Houston dormitories, would house the convention's sprinkling of Negro delegates (about 2%) together with their white brethren. A car pool would provide non-Jim Crow transportation. But the Negroes would still have been barred from most hotels and restaurants in Houston, would have to use separate toilet facilities, and would have to occupy special seats in public vehicles...
...museum, police raided John's house and found it furnished with some 2,000 objets d'art pilfered over the past 24 years. John did his last-ditch best to save some of the pieces by stuffing them into a vacuum cleaner or hiding them in a toilet tank, but it did no good: in fact, by this last-minute greediness some valuable items were ruined. The police hauled the rest of the lovely things back to the museum and turned John and Mary over to a magistrate...