Word: breast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyes were sunk back in his ash-colored face; there was grime under his eyes and pasted into the wrinkles around his mouth and on his forehead. He wore a shirt that was once white; now it was black and yellow and there was spaghetti sauce over the left breast. His breath had the smell of vomit and cheap booze. Juke was unmistakably one of West Madison Street's citizens...
...Grigori Roskin of Moscow University casually picked up an article on South America's fatal Chagas' disease, a protozoan infection spread chiefly by an acorn-sized insect, the triatoma. In female Chagas victims there is a wasting away of breast tissues, which are composed of large, spongy cells. Could it be, Dr. Roskin wondered, that the devouring parasitic trypanosomes are especially attracted to large cells? And that cancerous tissues, which are also made up of oversized cells, might also succumb to the same parasite...
...Joell "expresses" her bureau milk by hand (machine milking, says the bureau, is less tiring but harder on breast tissues) ; in the middle of her donation she often "feels quite depleted" and stops for lunch. The bureau pays her 15? an oz. for her milk, or about $44 a week-more than the attending nurses earn. Mrs. Joell's production is the envy of the bureau's other milk donors (most of whom earn about $70 a month), and she may remain fresh for 15 to 18 months...
...drop in infantile mortality, from 71.1 to 30.4 per 1,000 births during the last 24 years. Today's growing shortage he attributes to 1) prosperity, with fewer women needing the extra income; 2) widespread indifference of doctors to the priceless virtues of mother's milk (breast feeding is discouraged in many hospitals: it means more work for the staff); 3) modern fashions in motherhood -notions that breast feeding is not only a dreadful nuisance but is somehow a little vulgar...
...Gromyko is sent every day to prod him with a sharp sickle, now on his beak, now under his wing, now in his tail feathers. All the time the eagle keeps quite still, but it would be a great mistake to suppose that nothing is going on inside the breast of the eagle...