Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, Queen Nannarella, three months pregnant with Gigi's child, reigned more powerfully than ever in Rome's market. And just in time, too. Rome's mayor was preparing to investigate profiteering in the market, threatened her and all her kind with price control. Nannarella merely snorted. "Let him. We live by our wits here, and no mayor can fix them. My child isn't going to have the hard time that I had." As for the consumers who complained about her prices, "What do they expect?" said Nannarella. "Where are they...
...Enslavement could be imposed upon the vanquished as a condition of peace, or through the threat of hydrogen bombing. Biocontrol could make this enslavement complete and final, for the controlled subjects would never be permitted to think as individuals. A few months after birth, a surgeon would equip each child with a socket mounted under the scalp and electrodes reaching selected areas of brain tissue. A year or two later, a miniature radio receiver and antenna would be plugged into the socket. From that time on, the child's sensory perceptions and muscular activity could be either modified...
...once-human being, thus controlled, would be the cheapest of machines to create and operate. The cost of building even a simple robot, like the Westinghouse mechanical man, is probably ten times that of bearing and raising a child...
...East and West, credits the British with opening "the whole wealth of Western inductive science and knowledge of Western political institutions to the wondering gaze and avid hunger of the Indian student." At the same time, the Protestant missionaries attacked Hinduism's most flagrant corruptions-caste system and child marriage, enforced widowhood, suttee (a widow's suicide on the funeral pyre of her husband) and infanticide...
Born. To Leopold III, 54, onetime (1934-51) King of the Belgians, and his morganatic second wife, Marie Liliane, Princess de Rethy, 38: a second daughter, third child (his sixth); at their Chateau de Laeken, near Brussels. Name: Maria-Esmeralda Adelaide Lilian Anne Leopoldine. Weight...