Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...objection was voiced (1) to the protagonist's "irreverent" references to a statue and to his mother's religious values; (2) to the "gutter language" and reference to various anatomical organs: and (3) to two admittedly unconsummated sexual scenes that, it was felt, "could not help but sexually arouse children and adults alike...
Nader's feeling for duty and constant study grew out of his family upbringing in Winsted, Conn., a gracious town of 8,000. His mother Rose used to ask friends all about films showing at the local movie house and would send her four children only to the few that had useful messages. Nightly dinner was more a course in forensics than food: it often lasted four or five hours, and everyone was expected to contribute his opinions to the topic of the evening. Nadra Nader, now 77, a Lebanese immigrant who built up a moderately prosperous restaurant business, presided...
...audiences. When Consumers Union analyzed federally inspected pork sausage, inspectors found that one-eighth of the samples contained "insect fragments, insect larvae, rodent hairs and other kinds of filth." Investigators for the National Commission on Product Safety have found many potentially lethal toys on the market. Eleven Philadelphia children recently had to have tiny toy darts, which they accidentally inhaled from a plastic blowgun, removed from their lungs. Other hazards include a child's electric stove that produced temperatures of 600° and a baby's rattle that was held together with spikelike wires. Under a law signed last month...
...three days before I returned. I ascended the stairs a bit more self-confidently and entered the living room; the bearded man had been replaced by two little children on the couch and a baby in a bassinet. They too were olive-skinned. I asked for their mother and looked about...
...sickness for you. You will marry someone like yourself, but not soon. I don't see any marriage for you in the next two years." My barber could have told me that. I thought silently. "You have not yet met the girl you will marry. You will have four children, two boys and a girl, twins...