Word: infant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...baby is born, its face is all wrinkled, it looks like a prune. It is red and ugly and you say, Ts that my baby? No. Never.' But six weeks later, the baby has smooth, soft skin. Six weeks from now, Camelot will be the most beautiful infant ever...
...obstetrical argot, a clumsy delivery is a "midwife's job." This loss of stature was partly deserved. A generation ago, for example, all Moroccan births were handled by the tribal midwife (habla), whose actions were inspired more by superstition than by science. If the newborn Moroccan infant cried too loudly, the habla sliced the child's thorax "to let the bad blood out." About 80% of the noisy infants died...
Sciences, like animals, can reproduce when placed together under the proper circumstances. In Dayton, at a symposium sponsored by the Air Force, an infant science born of biology and electronics has made its appearance. Its name: bionics. Its aim: to study living creatures in hope of gaining knowledge to improve man-made mechanisms...
...sick even to cry, the tiny, four-week-old infant lay limply on its bed in a British hospital Tests of blood and pus samples, drawn from an inflamed abscess on the child's right hip, produced a chilling diagnosis: Staphylococcus aureus, of the dreaded "hospital type,"* which is resistant to penicillin and most antibiotics. With little hope of success, physicians administered massive doses of penicillin and streptomycin. Neither worked, and the child hovered near death. Finally, doctors tried an experimental drug, one so new that it still had no name, bore only a laboratory code number...
...adroitly is very exciting." she purrs. What follows should be naughty and very funny. It is nightmarish instead-like too much Liederkranz. In one of his rare excursions outside the Hotel Splendide, Funnyman Bemelmans draws a demon-driven adolescent who swears like a legionnaire, squeezes the head of an infant like a tennis ball, flips hatchets instead of hips at suitors, does her best to entice a priest, and sets fire to a convent...