Word: squeamishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Inconsistencies of discipline which indicates that discipline is just another word for the parents' convenience. 4) Relative lack of masculine attributes in the father or feminine attributes in the mother, making a student unsure of what he or she wants to be like. 5) "The presence of distorted or squeamish attitudes about body functions, especially those of sexual nature." 6) Living in a "poor neighborhood environment...
English studies are generally fairly adult in dealing with religion, which is practically a dirty word in squeamish Hollywood. Too often protectors of American faith are protrayed as grinning flaxen-haired Catholic priests, who just love baseball, or late, great, Senate chaplains, who equally love their Georgia peaches. Evidently, director Charles Frend has a healthy respect for accuracy when he gives us the inside line on the Church of England...
...fumes of taverns and mughouses, in a day when English ale and language were both stronger than they are now. How the songs got from the tavern to the nursery has never been quite clear, except that in the 17th and 18th centuries adults were far less squeamish about what was fit for children's ears than they are today. (Later, of course, many of the songs were expurgated and tied with pink and blue ribbons.) Often as not, nursery-rhyme characters were said to have had real counterparts, ranging from stern deans (Dr. Fell) to crooked stewards (Jack...
...does famed Pediatrician Benjamin Spock describe his own childhood in his new book, Feeding Your Baby and Child, written with Nutritionist Miriam E. Lowenberg (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3.75). Young Ben Spock's individual difficulties with food were the commonest kind: he was "something of a feeding problem," "very squeamish about lumps in cereal and scum on cocoa," and could not eat summer squash for 35 years because his mother forced it down him at the age of five...
...member of the Cheka. and ridden with Budenny's Red Cossack cavalry as a supply officer in the Polish campaign of 1920. The meek intellectual with "spectacles on [his] nose and autumn in [his] heart" as Babel described himself, spent the young manhood of his life honing his squeamish conscience on "the simplest of proficiencies -the ability to kill my fellow...