Word: unwantedness
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But if he was cold, it was because he was unwarmed. At ten, he was an orphan in a strange land. His father had been solicitor to the British embassy in Paris. His mother, afflicted with chronic tuberculosis, had had children at regular intervals on doctors' advice -pregnancy was...
"I set forth this proposition," he said, "that as Presbyterians we cease to have children of our own and begin to con- stitute families by means of adopting the unwanted, the disinherited, the dis possessed and the rejected children, to whom the ways for knowing who they are are largely...
In Poland, 4,000,000 pairs of shoes last year had to be reclassified to lower categories, and 18.3% of radio and TV sets were declared substandard. To stop unwanted goods from piling up in warehouses, the Polish government last year clapped fines totaling $8,000,000 on producers of...
Some 300 men, mostly Harvard freshmen, were turned away from that first dance because the legal capacity for the Union (1000 students) had been surpassed. Unwanted teenagers had worked their way through the back windows, through the fire escape leading to the television room, and by some methods which still...
Joy & Pride. Even some of the daring innovations seem questionable. For instance, all secretaries are given the interior glass walls; officials are relegated to the windowless exterior spaces. The concrete ramps (a favorite Le Corbusier device) and walkways that frame the central plaza add an unwanted clutter. The central, mushroomlike...