Word: biter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is the engine inside Hoffa that keeps him running so hard? The coal biter's son says a lot about it himself. In Detroit's recent newspaper strike, "at 3 a.m. in the morning three editors came to see me, and we worked things out. I talked and they listened. Can you imagine how it feels to have men like that listen to reason? Did you ever hear of confidence? Did you ever hear of people accepting a man on his bond? At a meeting three weeks ago, I put out some pension checks for the first...
...aimed at finding the causes of the child's tension, the Journal went on, and even if the root causes are hard to find, a lot of good can be done by building up the child's self-confidence and security: "Nagging or punishing a nail-biter never stops him for longer than half a minute, because he seldom realizes he is doing it. It often increases his tension. Is he being urged or corrected or warned or scolded too much? . . . If movies, television or radio adventures make him more jittery than the average child, he should...