Word: layman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made to "feel the attraction of Christian goodness." That was what most men felt in the presence. It was in a sense ironic that this sophisticated diplomat, member of old Roman aristocracy, should become so popular a Pope. Before World War II, a papal audience for a layman was a prestigious and protocol-encrusted enterprise. Under Pius XII, however, a visit to the Pope was heartwarming and almost informal (he often studied the sports pages of newspapers as carefully as the political news, because at many audiences he was required to talk more about sports than politics...
...layman's idea that because an automobile tire or piston wears out, so eventually must human organs, is only half true. In the youthful, still growing organism, cells divide rapidly, and all the components of the body (except nerve cells) are not only quickly added to, but also constantly replaced at the most intimate molecular level. This process does not stop with maturity; it goes on until death. But there is evidence that the rate of cell and tissue replacement slows down, until- perhaps at different times in dif ferent tissues - it is markedly less than the rate...
...partly responsible for the low state of Italian culture; as for Effel's pictures, they are "breezy," "charming," "graceful," "creative." Said Cartoonist Effel. a militant left-winger: Osservatore Romano has every right to criticize the film, although "they never seem to worry about religious ceremonies shocking the layman." Back came Osservatore with a blast at a sequence in which the Devil warms up Eve for the apple scene by bouncing her off in a frenetic rock 'n' roll. "This caricature of the female half of mankind would be enough to justify our protests. Nowhere does the Bible...
Weekly Torture. In charge of the program is a layman named Ho Chang-hsiang, officially in charge of the government's Department for Religious Affairs...
Modern medical science has saved countless unborn babies from "spontaneous abortion" (what the layman calls a miscarriage), and many doctors credit the use of hormones given to the mothers. But these substances, some natural and some synthetic, are often closely related to the male sex hormone, testosterone. An unexpected result now reported by two Johns Hopkins University authorities: a female fetus may have its development so changed that the baby can be mistaken for a boy, and raised...