Word: cribbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, leaving Wayne at his grandmother's house, happily playing with Granny's tiny gold wristwatch. When they came back, Wayne had a stomachache but no watch. "Wayne," asked his mother, "where is the tick-tick?" "I swallowed it," said Wayne. "You threw it out of the crib, didn't you?" she asked hopefully. "I eat it, Mommie. I eat it," said Wayne again. "Poor tick-tick...
Most Latin American cities restrict their prostitutes to segregated zones, small and well-policed. But from the sea-swept Malecón to the heights of Vibora, Havana's prostitutes are scattered in a dozen different districts. Counting crib occupants, streetwalkers, bar workers, nightclub pickups and the girls in well-appointed houses, their number has been estimated at around...
...until five months of age, at which time the mother was suddenly called away from home. The infant was left in charge of an aunt, who had been given the most minute instructions as to her care. The pediatrician told the aunt not to take the child from her crib (to preserve the child's excellent routine). By the end of the first week the child was found rolling violently from side to side, and had begun to scratch her face. She became constipated . . . the same type of reaction occurred during the next four years whenever the mother went away...
Every time a baby is found dead in his crib, apparently smothered by bedclothing or a soft pillow, the mother is tortured by the feeling that she should have been more careful. Neighbors and kin often brand her as negligent. Almost all such blame and remorse are pointless, says Dr. Keith Bowden in the current Australian Medical Journal: cases of "baby smothering" are usually due to unsuspected disease...
Cuddly Blonde. For 28-year-old Carol Elaine Channing, the leveling process had taken time. Broadway's newest star, born in Seattle in 1921, was stage-struck early. Before she could talk, her mother insists, she was mimicking family friends who peered into her pink-beribboned crib. From the time she was taken to a play at the age of six, Carol knew what she wanted to be. When other little girls talked glibly of their plans to become "great actresses" or "great dancers" some day, Carol would fall silent; her own ambition was too important to talk about...