Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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October. On the academic scene, Professor Leonard K. Nash will survive a green explosion which destroys Burr Hall. Says Mr. Nash, "It was pretty spectacular." President Eisenhower regains consciousness and announces that this nation, "with the help of God, Sherman Adams, and a firm belief in motherhood will muddle through the crisis." The Air Force denies that it has bombed the Navy-controlled Pentagon. Dean Bundy denies that he is upset by Harvard's winless football team...
...soldiers with grim, tormented faces and exhausted bodies suffer abominably in the grip of barbed wire. Death incarnate descends its dark, all-powerful might into the midst of struggling children and takes war's most horrifying toll. Humanitarian aspirations and instincts as epitomized by Kollwitz in the spirit of motherhood suffer and die under the relentless blow of man's inhumanity...
...results, Dr. Javert's patients achieve the motherhood of a live, healthy baby (often two or three of them) in 80% of cases. This, he concedes, is about the same measure of success reported by other anti-abortion specialists using different methods, some directly opposed to his. But there is not necessarily any conflict in these facts and figures. By no coincidence, all the most successful obstetricians and gynecologists go in for massive doses of reassurance and emotional support to the troubled women they treat. Thrice-married Obstetrician Javert, father of two, prescribes other comforts in moderation-wine...
...Mohr cited the case history of a nine-year-old boy who complained of bellyaches after meals. His mother said that his pains were similar to hers-and she had a duodenal ulcer. Dr. Mohr found that the woman had not wanted the child; motherhood had made her give up a promising art career. He decided that her pains and her child's were both reactions to frustration and stress...
...ground rules observed with equal fervor by editorial writers and politicians is that the Civil War is about as amenable to levity as motherhood. It was a reasonably calculated risk for President Eisenhower to call Confederate General Jeb Stuart a headline hunter, and for Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery to label Pickett's charge as ''monstrous." But when Ike and Monty jocularly agreed that Generals Lee and Meade should have been ''sacked'' for their blunders at Gettysburg (TIME, May 20). they committed themselves irrevocably to battle...