Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hush, my child, 'tis poor papa...
...early convert to Islam, Othman ben Affan (A.D. 574-656) has chronicled his own practice of this custom before Mohammed outlawed it. Ben Affan was burying his own daughter alive. As he was covering the child with earth, some dust was thrown up on his beard. The daughter, her arms still free, reached up to wipe the dust from her father's face; he proceeded with the grisly burial. Later, in describing the incident," he said: "It was the only time in my life that I ever shed a tear...
...could be given by this route (he was the first to apply this technique to "preemies"). Then came detailed studies of the physiology of preemies (showing just what development handicaps they suffered), and other vital topics, such as the effects of a mother's illnesses on her unborn child, and what substances, from hormones to antibodies, pass through the placenta from mother to child...
There was only one child in the Kamakovsky family, a little boy of eight, named Dusko. Unlike most Experimenters, therefore, Lorenz did not have a foreign "brother" or "sister" close...
...anti-party statements. This is serious business-only last year, two students had to be shot for forming a secret society. At this moment Novelist Grinioff's comic theme bursts into full cauliflower as his outraged Communist echoes the cry of many a rich bourgeois with a difficult child: "Where did she learn such words? She had a governess...