Word: newborn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia's Free Germany Committee came home to roost last week. The newborn German Communist Party met in Berlin and issued a manifesto setting forth the Party's program for the next step in Russian-occupied Germany. The program, whose moderation was startling chiefly to people who try to understand Communist behavior without understanding Communism, called for a popular front, parliamentary government and the unhampered development of private enterprise. The manifesto specifically...
Despite many contrary opinions, Reynard still plainly considers himself as a much put-upon individual, "as faultless as a newborn infant ... a man of piety and a pillar of religion." As Grimbart the Badger, his long-suffering nephew, often pointed out, Reynard was frequently to be found at his devotions...
...injections and pills are not needed by healthy people. Extra vitamin K is needed when disease cuts off bile flow and impairs intestinal absorption. It is also given to women a few days before childbirth and to newborn babies...
Horse Meat Helps. Almost half of France's newborn babies were underweight, and the child death rate had increased by 25%. Tuberculosis deaths were up 51%. The Germans had drained off dairy products, livestock (a quarter of France's cattle, a third of her draft animals), huge quantities of wine (for the Wehrmacht: 60,000 bottles of champagne daily-though the Germans, who did not know enough to specify the vintage years, did not get the best). Last week in towns where retreating Germans left dead horses on the street, the inhabitants eagerly butchered the carcasses...
...meant to him. Then City Supervisor Chester MacPhee, acting as moderator, asked members to give their comments. The chapter, which concerns original sin, precipitated a warm discussion. Municipal Judge Daniel Shoemaker contended that from the legal point of view a person is innocent until proved guilty, that therefore a newborn baby cannot be sinful. Said David Lewis after the meeting: "That chapter is a tough one. But it made some of those guys think; it is the first time some of them have used their brain cells for a long time...