Word: weaned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Smith notes that the 65 million metric tons of fish caught annually represent only one two-thousandth of the oceans' yearly fish production. One way to squeeze more out of the sea, he suggests, would be to wean people away from the 55 most popular species and get them to try some of the 30,000 to 40,000 underutilized varieties - an effort that might mean changing the names of such potential delicacies as the cancer crab and the rat-tailed flounder...
That is the least of Harvard administrators' worries. Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III recently called in Bennett and another glass eater and attempted to wean them away from their strange habit. After all, slivers of glass can lodge in the intestinal tract, producing inflammation or obstruction...
Coffin. Mauriac's antismoking campaign was inspired by Mayor Augustin Chauvet (who has not smoked in years) and gleefully promoted by ORTF, the state-run TV-radio network. To launch the crusade, a four-man team of psychologists and doctors held five days of meetings designed to wean the Mauriaquois from their smokes. At one gathering, Team Member Dr. Jean Pinet passed a miniature coffin around the audience. "Put your cigarettes in it," he exhorted, "or they'll put you in one." Other experts showed graphic films of the cancerous lungs of heavy smokers. The propaganda convinced many townspeople...
...report also says that the viewers who give the tube their undivided attention are for the most part preschoolers. By the time they reach first grade, children begin to wean themselves away from television, not to return with real concentration until they have small children of their...
...person on welfare wean him/herself from the dependency which the system nourishes? Waiting for the check, asking for money for special needs, always to be given things rather than doing for oneself, creates a unique dependency, separate from the simple need for sustenance. All factors conspire to keep a welfare person down: the day-to-day money scrape which prohibits planning, the bad neighborhoods, unsatisfactory schools, lack of autonomy...