Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such parents feel in effect that a baby who wets his diapers or hurls his Pablum at the ceiling is demonstrating that they are failures as parents. One young mother went into an all-day fit of hysterics because her young son refused to keep his coat on outdoors. Another told Colorado's investigators: "I have never felt really loved all my life. When the baby was born, I thought he would love me. When he cried, it meant he didn't love...
...reason for the Rams' preeminence, and the reason is just the reverse of 1965: "He has the leadership, the respect of the team. And he can read defenses." Which is a special kind of compliment, coming from Allen. A defensive coach for the Chicago Bears. Allen went to the Rams in 1966 preaching what he practiced best: defense. His work with Linemen Merlin Olsen, Deacon Jones, Roger Brown and Lamar Lundy gave them the muscular title, "Fearsome Foursome." As for Gabriel, Allen merely gave him the football, with instructions to keep it on the ground-"to let people know...
...Stock Exchange official, Shultz graduated from Princeton in 1942 with an honors degree in economics. During World War II, he was a major in the Marines. He earned a Ph.D. in industrial economics at M.I.T. in 1949, then joined the faculty as a professor of industrial relations. Later, he went to the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business and became its dean in 1962. He is married to a former Army nurse, and they have five children...
...Fowles had it as a child, it was the only sign he did have of his future profession. The son of a suburban cigar importer, he went to an English public school. "I enjoyed it, played cricket well and was successful." In fact, he became head boy, "a very efficient little Gestapo" who punished the other boys with a cane for their misdemeanors. After school, Fowles served in the British marines, which he hated. "I also began to hate what I was becoming in life -a British Establishment young hopeful. I decided instead to become a sort of anarchist...
...gone through trying to get one over here. We called Houston, New York, Florida, San Juan, everywhere, and it was the same answer. Most places said that I needed an appointment a month or two in advance and Christ, I couldn't wait that long. Tim and I went to Philadelphia, but we took one look at the doctor's office and walked out. The doctor would have done the operation using local anaesthesia, and I couldn't face that...