Word: childishly
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...then, bankrupt solutions, devoid of any long-range considerations, and devoted primarily to buttering up voters by away of their pocket books and their love for their children. Its philosophical basis is the archaic notion that the West can enforce its image of Asia by the sword, and a childish insistence on "getting it over with...
When he heard of the release, Stanley E. Tobin '53, president of the legitimate Young Democratic Club, let off a blast of his own. "For the past week," he said, "I have heard nothing but ridiculous statements and childish pranks on the part of those who just cannot go along with the Democratic party...
Child's Play. The little-girl dancers, their childish bodies sheathed in golden cloth, moved slowly about the stage, hips back, knees bent and slightly parted, darting their slant eyes, their arms and fingers flowing through a cascade of graceful and sophisticated gestures, all with a slight smile of incredible self-possession. The oldest was 13. The male dancers were much older. In one all-male number, 30 men sat in a circle on the floor, shaking their shoulders in unison, and began a syncopated whisper that worked up into something like a football cheer, while a clown leapt...
Last week, school principals waited worriedly for reports of discrimination or childish cruelty. But as the first days passed, there was only silence. Not one child was singled out for teasing because of his color; not one teacher refused to work in mixed classes; not one Nordic mother took her own child out of school in protest...
What the newsmen saw was the world's biggest and most expensive accumulation of junk. It threw a pitiless light on the character of the man who had lived here until a few weeks before. Farouk's tastes sometimes seemed curiously childish, like those of a schoolboy who has never grown up beyond the French postcard stage. Above all, the palace gave the impression that someone had feverishly and indiscriminately crammed possessions into the vast rooms, to ward off loneliness, or perhaps despair...