Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Davis had a temperature of just 70°. But Vickie's temperature was 60.8°. No one in medical history had ever survived a temperature as low as that (a Chicago woman lived after a 64.4° temperature in 1951). Doctors had little hope of saving the child, but they decided to try. She was placed in a warm-water bath and given regular cortisone injections. As the water's temperature was increased Vickie's body began to thaw. She moved slightly; then she cried. Three and a half hours after she was put in the water...
Born in Rome, she was raised in Naples, quit school in the seventh grade and has not been known to read a book since. As a child, Sophia was called stecchetta (little stick) because she was so frail. But at 14 she blossomed into something approaching her present contours, entered a beauty contest, won third prize and was off to Rome. Two years later Italian Producer Carlo Ponti met her and launched her in the movies. In the next four years, she ground out 20 films, nine in 1953 alone. Mostly, they were a tribute to matter over mind...
Lost World. The reader first meets Adlai as a child sharing a platform with his grandfather-namesake (Vice President under Cleveland) and William Jennings Bryan. Like many another born orator, Adlai had no taste for the rhetoric of others, and he slept soundly through Bryan's bombinations...
Republicans, suspects Author Ives, would like to hear that as a child he "tortured frogs." No such thing. Though he twice got his nose broken in fights, Adlai loved bunnies and stray dogs, and moved a family friend to exclaim: "Why, that boy was an angel-just an angel...
Despite its chatty frankness, Buffie's picture of Adlai may be often carefully retouched. It is nonetheless an instructive picture, which shows the child who was father...