Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guests from the Middle East, Carter invited Begin upstairs to the family quarters for a 90-minute private chat. Ritualistically, the Premier was invited to look at a sleeping Amy. He also met Miz Lillian and gallantly kissed her hand. Miz Lillian, Begin observed, reminded him of his own mother, a Polish Jew who was killed by German storm troopers near Cracow...
...young girls) who cannot raise the money must presumably either bear their unwanted children-thus bringing many thousands of new customers to welfare-or find some way, however dangerous, dark and filthy, to kill the fetus more cheaply. Such methods have had the result of sometimes disposing of the mother as well...
Another example of the conflict, in a variety of mammals, is weaning. When the benefit to the child begins to be outweighed by the cost to the mother (reduced ability to bear or care for other offspring), the mother will deny milk, though the offspring will continue to demand more. But parents have an edge. (Says Trivers: "An offspring cannot fling its mother to the ground at will and nurse.") So evolution has provided a defensive weapon for the offspring: psychological warfare. Some fledgling birds will scream with hunger?even when they are reasonably well fed?to induce the parent...
...early, Trivers thinks, that the action may actually begin before birth. He believes there are "chemical tactics" that the fetus uses on the mother to increase its size and fitness while still in the womb. Even more surprising is Trivers' theory (for which he admits there is yet no evidence) of genetic conflict between egg and sperm before conception: under some conditions, the egg may try to repel sperm with female-producing X chromosomes in order to be fertilized into a boy rather than a girl...
Hannah blames her mother for teaching her that life's greatest virtue is snug security, and she regrets the husband, the only man she has ever known, who so perfectly lived up to her mother's ideal. Most of all she blames herself for spending her years listening rather than thinking...