Word: unkind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Equally Unkind. The standard treatment for insanity in George Ill's day was coercion and restraint. If he refused to eat because he had difficulty swallowing, or if he was too restless to lie down, his attendants would put him in a straitjacket...
Historians have been equally unkind, characterizing him as neurotically irresolute at some times and unrealistically stubborn at others. Some attribute his firm anticolonial policy during the American Revolution to outright madness. The findings of Drs. Macalpine and Hunter require a modification of this view to take his physical illness into account. The new evidence may also explain the mysterious deaths of several of his ancestors and collateral relatives, including James I's son Henry and George's sister Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway. Both were rumored to have been poisoned by close relatives. Both actually...
...watches the Barrett show with competitive pride. "Oh, that's all wrong," Haber will scoff at one of Rona's items. Or "I had that but didn't use it." In her success, Haber may face a danger. It was she who wrote in an unkind piece on Barbra Streisand: "Once you are a superstar, there are two choices open to you: you can become a bore or a monster." As she climbs into celebrity status, Columnist Haber is determined not to become a bore...
Washington gossips are wont to make unkind jokes about "Plastic Pat, the Wind-Up Doll." But Pat Nixon has paid them no heed. Pat, backed up by Daughters Tricia and Julie, made the rounds of wounded servicemen at Honolulu's Tripler General Hospital. She was completely relaxed with the G.I.s, who were as impressed with her as they were with Julie's interest and enthusiasm and Tricia's flowing golden tresses. The Nixon ladies then returned to Washington, but not for long. Pat leaves on a three-day trip to California and the Pacific Northwest this week...
...related the Jordanian's long list of failures in school, in work and in life, Sirhan stiffened and angrily whispered protests to his other lawyers. Later, one attorney explained that Sirhan had not read Berman's statement before it was delivered, and "when you're saying unkind things about him, he doesn't like it." Berman later claimed that Sirhan actually "admired and loved" Kennedy until the day the Senator said that he favored sending 50 Phantom jets to Israel. As always, Sirhan's mother, Mary, was in court...