Word: clefts
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...Cleft in the Rock. What Holly is looking for is what Streetcar's Blanche DuBois was looking for, "a cleft in the rock of the world." She seems to find it with a Brazilian diplomat named José Ybarra-Jaeger, but a scandal of which Holly is innocent breaks over her blonde head and Ybarra-Jaeger checks out. In that heartbroken moment she is defenseless and touching. " 'But oh gee, golly goddamn,' she said, jamming a fist into her mouth like a bawling baby, I did love...
...cortisone-type hormones, may subject the fetus to oxygen shortage or some other threat. The result: "Physicians now face the horrible possibility that they, in addition to certain 'acts of God,' are responsible for many developmental defects." He lists babies born with one eye, abnormal hearts, cleft palate or mongolism, and Siamese twins...
...pious country girl who was groomed for the role of prophetess at Delphi's prosperous temple. There she was clothed in a bridal robe, learned to get along with the temple snakes, eat the sacred laurel and become the ecstatic "bride" of the god who emanated from the cleft of a rock in the depth of the earth. As a Pythia she was alone, a social outcast, feared and avoided by the plain people of Delphi. She was totally filled with the love of her dark, subterranean god, and yet at times she was rebellious. "For what else...
...speech became nasal and thick, like a cleft-palate victim's. Damage to the Eustachian tube and repeated infections left him almost deaf on the right side, where he had been accustomed to placing patients, so that his chair and analytic couch had to be transposed. Hardly intelligible in German, he could not surmount the added difficulties of a foreign tongue (though he had spoken English and French fluently), observed to famed Singer Yvette Guilbert: "Meine Prothese spricht nicht französisch [My prosthesis does not speak French...
Like harelip and cleft palate (TIME, Sept. 17), mental retardation may show up oftener in certain families without being directly hereditary by any Mendelian pattern. Dr. Stott's theory: the tendency may be hereditary, and disease or distress during pregnancy may touch...