Word: breast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marquis of Carmarthen in the House of Lords. Edmund Burke made the same point with more sympathy for the Colonists: "The scarcity you have felt would have been a desolating famine if this child of your old age, with a true filial piety, had not put the full breast of its youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent...
Moments later, a beaming Trin, the first Vietnamese prince of the church, was greeted by an enthusiastic round of applause. His appearance had lifted the anonymity from one of two men elevated to cardinal's rank in pectore (in the breast, meaning secretly) when the other 19 nominations were announced (TIME...
...Archbishop Agostino Casaroli, and Archbishop Giovanni Benelli, one of his closest advisers and the Deputy Secretary of State. However, promotions would have removed them from their present posts, which cardinals do not fill, and Paul may consider them indispensable. Two of the new cardinals were in pectore (in the breast), meaning that their names will be kept secret unless the Pope discloses them; these secret cardinals might be his two aides. Recent appointments in pectore have been from Eastern Europe, but Paul last week publicly named Archbishop Laszlo Lekai of Hungary, successor to the late Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty...
...film's chief complaint is that the male-dominated medical profession has always treated female patients like children or half-wits--diagnosing them summarily, making critical decisions without consulting them, and refusing to explain the risks and medical alternatives to such radical surgery as breast removal and hysterectomy. The women who made the film offer the solution of enlightenment; they clearly believe--and many of the women interviewed say this too--that when women are educated about their bodies, their physicians, and what they have a right to demand for their own medical safety, they can effectively challenge their doctors...
...should know that they can give birth at home, assisted by a trained midwife. They should know that sometimes doctors order hysterectomies for convenience and that if a patient insists on it, sometimes her uterus can be saved. They should think twice before signing a blanket consent form before breast surgery...