Word: harelip
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...They guard us." More remarkable still, these children of violence are born free of the curse of violence. And when one exceptional child does want to fight, "the children regarded him as some sort of unfortunate born with the need to quarrel as if as might have had a harelip...
Rather Cheerful. Other abnormal conditions seen at birth are associated with defective genes, but the pattern is more complicated than Mendelian recessive. They produce hydrocephalus (water on the brain), spina bifida (failure of the spinal column to close), harelip and clubfoot. When a couple has had one child with one of these defects, the chance that a later child will have it is in the good-risk range, or about one in 25. "You may think that is rather serious," said Dr. Fraser Roberts, "but we think it is really something rather cheerful. You have to remember there...
Operation Harelip. The Army, which operates most of the U.S. military hospitals in Viet Nam, is hesitant about letting its medics take on civilian care, insisting that "our mission is to support our own troops." After a rash of plastic surgery for cleft-palate victims won the nickname "Operation Harelip" for all U.S. compassionate services, the Army officially put aid to civilians on an "emergency only" basis, partly on the ground that noisy children were disturbing sick servicemen...
...Holy Family Hospital in Qui Nhon. It is staffed by eleven Medical Mission Sisters, among them the only American Catholic Sisters working in Viet Nam. Their services include surgery and obstetrics. A venture, started by a Protestant Army chaplain and his unit with the hospital, has been labeled "Operation Harelip." For the past few months, the men have been bringing Vietnamese children with harelips to the hospital, passing the hat to cover the expenses of corrective surgery performed by Sister M. Virginia Sayers, M.D., of Toledo, Ohio...
Miss Robinson is a stenographer in the fanmail room of a large movie studio. In her boredom, she starts corresponding with a Minnesota farmer who has written a fan letter to one of the studio's stars, and whose main problem is that he has a harelip and can rarely make himself understood. Writing in the name of the star, she carries on the correspondence for months: "Dear Sir: As I usually do not answer letters sent to me by fans, since I get (crossed out) receive thousands, I would appreciate your keeping this note confidential . . ." Finally they meet...