Word: infantes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment however, his enthusiasm centers around the infant Undergraduate Council. "I'm really impressed with the council." Burlier said "The officers seem to hae their responsibilities and roles very well thought out,". The council is quite efficient particularly for such young organization, he adds...
...easy to address an infant solely in the language of the Old Testament. Ben-Yehuda had to keep inventing words: buba (doll), glida (ice cream), mimkhata (handkerchief). When more children appeared (eleven in all), they too had to speak entirely in the dead language that Ben-Yehuda was almost single handedly bringing back to life. Recalls his daughter Dola Ben-Yehuda Wittman, now 75: "Sometimes the other children would mock us because they didn't understand the Hebrew words we were using...
...transplants. At Stanford University Medical Center, about one out of three candidates for a heart transplant dies before a suitable heart becomes available. At New York's Montefiore Medical Center, 25 out of 30 patients have died over the past two years while waiting for a new lung. Infant donors are rarest of all. "Pediatric organs are more priceless than gold," says Brian Broznick of the University of Pittsburgh Transplant Foundation...
Bruce should be an example to us all on hour to shorten long passages One example from Dickens suffices. Great Expectations begins. "My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit that Pip." The Great Expectation version: "My name is Pip Pirrip," Punchy and to the point...
...belongs to a family that is unhappy in ways Tolstoy would understand. Her father, Sheridan Shields, is a doctor who practices in a lush, remote area of Hawaii. He was one of the first Americans allowed into Hiroshima after the Bomb; he left the flattened city with an infant Japanese boy whom he had delivered and an incurable case of moral numbness. His wife Anna tells him that "what you saw there became your definition of suffering. And mere human, everyday suffering means nothing to you." She knows that he is sleeping with a young native girl, and this knowledge...