Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger. -from the Gospel According to Luke...
...long, meanwhile, the Pakistani regime kept up a running drumfire about Pakistan's jihad, or holy war, with India. An army colonel insisted there were no Pakistani losses whatsoever on the battlefield. His reasoning: "In the pursuit of jihad, nobody dies. He lives forever." Pakistan radio and television blared forth patriotic songs such as All of Pakistan Is Wide Awake and The Martyr's Blood Will Not Go Wasted. The propaganda was accompanied by a totally unrealistic picture of the war. At one point, government spokesmen claimed that Pakistan had knocked out 123 Indian aircraft to a loss of seven...
...SECOND TRIMESTER is more peaceful. The most important event is the quickening, when the developing infant's movements can first be felt and it begins to seem human. According to Deutscher, couples report playing with the wife's belly and "pushing it to call forth a response from the fetus." There is, he says, "a sense of hilarity and awe, of joking and solemnity and of some quality of respect" that is almost religious...
...After considering the moral arguments put forth by the respondents and after considering the goals of the university, i.e. Christian humanism, (we) find the respondents not guilty as charged," said a statement included with the verdict. "The majority of the voting members of the University Conduct Board not only feels that the respondents were morally justified but were morally obligated to do what they...
Turning its cameras away from the Martian surface. Mariner provided a bonus for scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory: the first closeup pictures of the two tiny moonlets of Mars. Deimos and Phobos. Sharpened and clarified by computers, the photographs finally laid to rest an enticing theory put forth a few years ago by Soviet Astrophysicist I.S. Shklovskii. who said that the apparent behavior of Phobos in orbit meant that it could be hollow. That in turn suggested to Shklovskii that the moonlet might be an artificial satellite, lofted into orbit by a long-extinct Martian civilization. Instead, Mariner...