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...meaning of shame or fear; the women no less than the men crowd round nudities." His fiancee plans a tourist jaunt with a girl friend. Freud tut-tuts: "Should that be allowed? Two single girls traveling alone in North Germany!" At the age of 73, the famed silver-cord cutter is still in an Oedipal tangle with his 94-year-old mother: "I somehow could not forgive myself if I were to die before...
...this way, they cause a harmless infection. They do this in the digestive tract and render this part of the body an unsuitable seeding ground for future invasions of poliovirus. (The Salk vaccine triggers the production of antibodies, which circulate in the blood and protect the brain and spinal cord against paralysis, but does not sterilize...
...baby had been predisposed to a heart attack by thickening of the lining in some of the coronary arteries, roughly similar to atherosclerosis in the adult. Circulation, the doctors believe, had been interrupted by the difficult delivery that followed premature descent, and probably squeezing of the umbilical cord. Blood clots formed, as in the adult's coronary thrombosis. As far as they can judge, the baby had his fatal heart attack when only one hour...
...NACIONAL of Caracas: Semi-colonial peoples have never managed to emancipate themselves without counting on the rivalries be tween great powers. The U.S.S.R. oc cupies for us today the place England had when Simon Bolivar cut the um bilical cord that tied us to Spain. We would not be worthy if we did not take advantage of that reality...
...served enough coffee to keep Rip van Winkle awake and nervous till the end of time. Working Riker's, Cord's and other short-order, all-night stands in Manhattan, she was a competent waitress, but often she served people with her face turned aside. Once when a group of actors came in, she fled to the basement, hid and wept-for Irene Dailey really considered herself an actress...