Word: infantability
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...well. At the British Home in Sierra Madre, a retirement camp for expatriates, the Queen tramped from stucco bungalow to bungalow, pleasing the 38 residents almost unbearably. The oldest, Sybil Jones-Bateman, 97, gave Her Majesty a homemade tea cozy and a collectively sewn quilt for the infant Prince William...
While the full ramifications of the victory will remain hazy until Thatcher calls general elections in the summer or early fall, the infant Alliance has definitely taken a big step towards its goal of supplanting Labour as the chief opposition party. After the election returns were announced, a London Times poll found that the Alliance had moved ahead of Labour into second place behind the Conservatives in public opinion (39 to 34 to 26 percent). With the general election so close, Labour officials may well be running scared...
Decades ago, a controversial novel stirred England and America. Its action took place in 1984, and its theme was the encroachments of a future authoritarian state. The book was The Napoleon of Notting Hill, written in 1904, when George Orwell was an infant. The author was Gilbert Keith Chesterton, a man perpetually in advance of, and behind, his time...
...senseless suffering at first hand. He saw the agony of humanity in the World Wars, and the events of his personal life were often painful. His younger brother Kenneth, with whom he was very close, was killed in World War I, and MacLeish lost two sons, one as an infant and the other as a young man to cancer. But everything in these letters bears witness that he was nevertheless a great knower and lover of life, and that he believed this to be the root of his art. He writes his student Ilona Karmel that "heart alone has never...
...rays. In significant doses, X radiation can damage cells and may be a factor in causing cancer; it may be particularly dangerous to the rapidly dividing cells of children and pregnant women. NMR, by contrast, appears to be harmless. "We can look at the developing brain of an infant easily and safely," says Dr. Robert Steiner of London's Hammersmith Hospital...