Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parent of an adopted daughter the same age as Hildy, I cannot conceive of any law which could properly justify removing this child from the custody of the people who are as much her parents as they would be had she been born of their own flesh. If the authorities are serious about their responsibility to place a child with persons whose faith is the same as that of the natural mother, then they should know that the opportunity to do so in this case is past...
...honesty and humor, the late Hilaire Belloc was the best judge of British character that France ever produced. But in most other aspects of life, he was one of the worst. In this authorized biography, Author-Actor Robert Speaight. an Anglo-Catholic, presents Belloc in all the fullness of flesh and mind...
...established by His purpose; and apart from Him nothing is done." Professor William F. Albright of Johns Hopkins has pointed out that many phrases are duplicated in both, and in both the dualistic coupling of opposites recurs again and again - light and darkness, truth and error, spirit and flesh, death and life. The parallels and similarities are, in fact, so numerous and conclusive that they seriously challenge the theory that the Gospel of John was the latest to be written and that it shows marked Greek influence. Instead, many modern scholars now view John as thoroughly Jewish and his Gospel...
...This incident is used by Sir Harold Delf Gillies, Britain's famed and famously light-hearted plastic surgeon, to illustrate the infinite challenges to the imagination that are found in his difficult surgical specialty. A massive new study now tells how Sir Harold and his colleagues treat human flesh as if it were sculptor's clay and reports on the latest heroic operations which restore mutilated bodies to human shape. For a full account, see MEDICINE, Flap Happy...
...other matters, Gillies is a perfectionist. He has no use for the cancer surgeon who removes a woman's breast and suggests no replacement. Gillies makes an incision from below the armpit, across the abdomen, around the navel and back again. With the flesh thus released, he constructs a tube pedicle flap,* and as he brings it around to the side of the missing breast, the inside-out navel (concave to convex) takes the place of the nipple. After this surgery, a woman has an abdominal scar but no deformity. In some patients, as a result of an embryonic...