Word: infantability
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...birth, the midwife had ready a piece of wet paper; if the father approved, she would stifle the unwanted infant...
...Paris, the big money with the 1941 film Buck Privates. Through 1951, they were almost always among the top ten moneymakers in Hollywood, pulling down as much as half a million a year. Beneath Costello's clowning there was often hidden suffering-he had rheumatic fever, his infant son drowned in a swimming pool-but the farce and slapstick went on uninterrupted until 1957, when Costello ended the partnership and tried unsuccessfully to become a more serious actor. Last week, at the moment when retired Bud Abbott received word that Lou Costello had died, he was watching himself...
Anna's inefficiencies-her forgetfulness about roll call, her chaotic classroom-are only surface disabilities. Absorbed in the agony of infant minds expanding under pressure, she is less interested in taming her Maoris than in finding the key to these hearts as virgin as her body. She becomes convinced that the words the youngsters respond to are not those in the pap-filled children's books but the ones drawn from fear and sex-from the vital reservoirs of life. Kiss, ghost, butcher, police, fight, jail-shown such words, the most stubborn of the nonlearners read and write...
...which matched the drapes, as we had our girl to girl talk. "I've been dusting the objects d'art." (Her fans will recall that Miss Tinee's wedding gift to her husband was a life-size nude statue of herself.) A nursemaid appeared, carrying Mae's new-born infant Garnette and Mae explained, "I had her by natural childbirth. I didn't want to miss one minute of it. My husband Ulysses did the preparation exercises right along with...
...illiterate Indian masses, who are trucked to the polls every six years to vote their approval of the planters' latest officer-candidate for President. The head count of 2,400,000 citizens ranks El Salvador as the most crowded nation on the American continents, and population, despite an infant mortality rate of 20%, keeps going up by 4% a year. But Lemus, an efficient President, has completed the best road network in Central America. Now he would like to raise $190 million in public and private funds to fuel an ambitious "ten-year plan" designed to diversify agriculture, build...