Word: infantes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President's wife spent three hours at Washington's Children's Hospital doling out toys. The visit provided a particularly emblematic First Lady image: Nancy Reagan in her red-and-black pumps, black knit Adolfo jacket and plaid Adolfo skirt, kneeling on a linoleum ward floor to coddle an infant. Impeccably turned out, uncomplainingly doing her social duty...
Suzanne Sommers of Clinton, N.J., was diapering her eight-month-old daughter Allison in 1977 when she heard a distinct pop in the child's leg. Ordinarily an infant's bones are so pliable that considerable force is required to break them, but in Allison's case, the tibia, the major bone of the lower leg, had snapped like a pretzel. When doctors examined the child, they found that she was suffering from a rare congenital defect known as pseudarthrosis (false joint) of the tibia. In the one out of 140,000 children who is born with this condition...
...could have predicted such longevity for the infant Forster, least of all his formidable mother Lily. Her first baby had died at birth. The second, born on New Year's Day in 1879, survived, but his father was dead of tuberculosis 22 months later. Lily and a clutch of female relatives and friends conspired to keep young Edward from all harm; they mercilessly spoiled him, referred to him as "the Important One" in his presence and left him unprepared for the schoolboys who later called him "Mousie" instead...
Pulitzer prize-winning sociologist Paul E. Starr, currently on leave as a visiting professor at Princeton University, wrote that advances in health care for the poor have come at great cost. He said that infant mortality has been cut in half since 1968 and that the average life expectancy has gone up by four years...
Strapped in the passenger seats were 72 dummies, including an infant-size one. Thirteen of the dummy passengers were fitted with sensors on the forehead, upper chest and pelvis to chart the effect of G forces on the bodies of crash victims...