Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today's females, especially those in college, lead far more complicated lives than their great-great grandmothers. As Gettell pointed out, "Some of our graduates start a career before marriage, and stop before the first child; others continue throughout their married life. Some merely interrupt a career, and resume it as the children grow up; others marry so early that they never get started. Some occupy themselves with part-time or unpaid work. Some become frustrated, searching for something useful to do. Some support their husbands in the early years; others support them all their lives. Some go domestic...
Last week the child, thereby saved during a recent delicate pulmonary-valve operation at Denver's National Jewish Hospital, was recovering normally. Unpublished so far, the technique originated this summer with Physiologist Baruch Bromberger, 40, and Dr. Paolo Caldini, 30, an Italian physician working in the U.S. on a Fulbright grant. They went to work on ventricular fibrillation, which is still a grave danger when a patient's body is cooled for heart surgery (hypothermia). The cooling itself protects the brain from lack of oxygen (anoxia), has greatly advanced modern heart surgery. But hearts cooled to an average...
...were still frowned upon. Sara's carriage-builder father told her to forget the idea. After breezing through Radcliffe in three years, she pursued her second love, philology, took a Ph.D. at the University of Munich. There, too, she met and married Lawyer Sebastian Jordan, had her only child, Mary Stuart Jordan...
...route Ella proves again that she is mistress of more moods than anybody else in the business. She bends her remarkably supple voice with sighing ease around tortuous, voice-trapping lyrics ("I want to peep through the deep, tangled wild wood/ Counting sheep 'til I sleep like a child would"). Best of all, she takes the faded material and gives it a fresh emotional gloss...
...labor pains coming on, and since the boy still thinks that babies are bought from pushcart peddlers, it is prudent to post him elsewhere. In a scene of superb comic tenderness, Papa attempts to explain where children really come from, and bears up just fine until his relentlessly inquisitive child asks: "But, Papa, where do you plant the seed...