Word: unwantedness
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Vice President Richard Nixon had a tough and unwanted assignment: he had to defend the Administration and the President against Adlai Stevenson's criticism, and, in passing, he had to reprove Joe McCarthy and take account of McCarthy's gutter tactics. Nixon handled the assignment with dignity and...
Unwanted Ghosts. To turn out so much in one year, Tamayo keeps himself to a hard schedule. He gets up early in the morning, works regular hours. "I practice painting as a trade," he says. "I don't believe very much in the muses gathering round you and inspiring...
¶ A married woman of 28 was more remarkable because she insisted that although she had borne two children, she knew nothing of the "facts of life." Dr. Kelsey admits the scientific possibility that she may have been suffering from hysterical amnesia. However, he says: "I am quite sure she...
"As Soon as Weaned." Augustus Hare, author of Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire, Walks in Rome, and other popular Victorian travel books, was an unwanted child. When his godmother asked to adopt him, his delighted mother wrote back: "How very kind of you. Yes, certainly the baby shall be sent as...
In a refugee camp a few miles outside Seoul last week, Ahn Nam-chang and her family were getting ready to go home. Nam-chang's husband was one of at least a million South Korean civilian casualties in the early days of the war, but she has a...