Word: infantability
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...Navy sent him to the U.N. meeting as an assistant to the secretary-general of the U.S. delegation. The operations and purpose of the conference deeply impressed him. He found the infant organization "a great opportunity for this country--not a millennium, but at least a chance for peace...
...feet they come out of the pan almost as raw and hard as they went in. Blue-cheeked children huddle inside the windowless, dirt-floored, one-room hut to escape the biting mountain wind. Within are a bed, two chairs, and a four-inch figure of the Infant Jesus on a homemade altar; magazine pictures of bathing beauties, futbol players and stern-faced priests are tacked indiscriminately around the walls. The house has no water or sanitary facilities; the nearest public bath is six miles away, but Sabino and his wife have not visited it this year. The only sign...
...gonad) which at first cannot be identified as male or female. Within a week or two, in normal growth, it becomes recognizable as either the female kind that will develop into ovaries, or the male kind that will become testicles. Sometimes, nature gets its wires crossed and the luckless infant develops one ovary and one testicle, or an intermediate type of "ovotestis." and some of the genital organs of both sexes. This is true hermaphroditism,* though Pediatrician Lawson Wilkins of Johns Hopkins, a top authority on the subject, prefers the term "intersexuality...
...natural gas pipeline industry is a lusty, brawling infant whose two major operators, Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. and Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., sprang up from nothing within the past decade. For the last three years, these two quick-grown giants have fought each other for control of New England, the biggest untapped market. Last week, before the Federal Power Commission in Washington, their battle reached a crucial round...
Rare & Grave. Despite Mrs. Lucas' enthusiasm, what had happened to Billy was really no miracle. He was a victim of myasthenia gravis, a mysterious, uncommon disease which usually strikes adolescents or the elderly. Infant cases are rare, and Billy's was especially hard for the doctors to diagnose because he was stricken so soon after birth, when cerebral palsy is the likeliest explanation of symptoms such...