Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only has to glance at the cover of your magazine to estimate how far the women's movement has come. Not very far. What is it going to take to wean the American man from his mother's breasts...
...heard from everyone but my mother," he chortled...
...decade ago, just one out of 20 babies born in the U.S. was, in Shakespeare's phrase, "from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd." Doctors performed caesareans only in cases in which normal delivery was impossible, or the patient refused to endure vaginal delivery. Now, there has been a sharp upswing in the number of caesareans. Last year at least one out of every ten babies in the U.S. was delivered surgically. At major medical centers, which tend to handle more problem pregnancies, the share is even higher. The University Hospitals of Cleveland at present deliver...
...cattle are fed on marginal resources and provide a vital in strument of production as traction animals," Harris said. "The cow is the mother of agriculture; the economy is not being held back, in fact Hinduism does more for the Indian economy than Protestantism does for Western ones," he added...
...week's Punch. There is Wilfred, sympathetic for the workers in the 1926 General Strike, but winsomely envious of a fellow cleric gone off to drive a train. And Ronnie, ever the six-year-old boy who had brought a bunch of fresh-picked flowers to his new mother, always needy for the mothering attention of elegant ladies in great country houses. It was under Lady Acton's affectionate (if platonic) wing that he translated his celebrated Bible...