Word: motherhood
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West Germans are enjoying a remarkable prosperity that would be weakened by unifying with their poorer brothers in Communist East Germany. This is one reason why West German politicians (who would as soon denounce motherhood as reunification) privately concede that the reunification issue is not as real as the noise it makes...
...bosses had them as displaying their real inner benevolence by handing out Christmas food baskets and helping poor widows. These things they did, but in quest of power, not out of kindness. To a lavish extent, Frank Hague went through the same motions. As his monument to motherhood, for example, he left behind him the $1.8 million Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital. But Hague was hated and feared, and the secret of his power was that he was feared more than he was hated. Simply by presenting to the public eye his natural, unlovable self, Frank Hague helped destroy the dangerous...
Among other forms of Marxist progress, the Communist Revolution brought Russia "voluntary motherhood." A 1920 law permitted Soviet hospitals to perform abortions without charge. Business got so heavy that women queued up in some of the bigger hospitals. Abortions were soon rivaling births in some Soviet cities, and a small fee was charged for the service. Alarmed at this drainage of its manpower, Russia banned abortions in 1936 except for strictly therapeutic reasons...
...will once more be permitted in Russian state medical institutions to women who want them. Probable reason for the reversal: the spread throughout Russia of illegal abortions. Henceforth, said the government, it will try to avert abortions not by law but by "further extension of state measures for encouraging motherhood and by educational and explanatory means...
...attractive blonde correspondent managed to keep her children calm and file her election dispatches for FOREIGN NEWS' Ritual Day. Monica is not one to let motherhood interfere for long with journalism. Twice she has sent us cryptic cables to the effect that she would be out of touch briefly. Each time we received from her, in about ten days, excellent story suggestions with the notations that she had taken time out for childbearing...