Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least 27,000 unmarried mothers. The birth rate of only 110,000 babies a year in a country of 7,000,000 is in itself a hazard to Sweden's future. Fully 10% of the babies are illegitimate. One of every two unmarried women who conceive a child has a legal abortion. All a woman need do to have one is to convince a social worker that the birth is "unsuitable." About 5,000 women, married and unmarried, are admitted to hospitals each year for legal abortions. A professor at Stockholm's largest women's clinic...
...title, Swedish Youth Speaks, I found a partial answer to my own question. "I have no real morals," said a boy of 19. "And I would never marry a girl because I had made her pregnant. Why should I give up my liberty for the sake of a child...
...bright ones, try to make the loud pedal sound like a new tune. The real honors go to Donald Cook. No one so deftly conveys well-bred distaste or alarm-looking as though he has just noticed a dead horse under the sideboard, or is about to hear a child of six recite...
...would be hard to guess it from the suite; despite moments of real strength, its character is mostly sweetness and light. Ravel: L'Enfant et les Sortileges (soloists, chorus and Suisse Romande Orchestra conducted by Ernest Ansermet; London). Collette's enchanting ballet-opera about an enchanted child, which Ravel reluctantly finished in 1925 after years of procrastination. The child is throwing a tantrum when the magic begins: the armchair (bass), clock (baritone), teapot (tenor), fire (coloratura soprano) come to life to terrify him into better behavior. Despite its size, the orchestra twiddles and tweaks lightly, and the tunes...
Born. To Princess Josephine Charlotte, 27, sister of King Baudouin of Belgium, and Prince Jean, 34, heir apparent to the throne now occupied by his mother, Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg: their second child, first son; in Betzdorf Castle, Luxembourg. Name: Henri. Weight...