Word: newborn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hafiz and Bashir denounce the doctrine of original sin. "How cruel," says Hafiz, "to think a newborn baby is a sinner." Bashir adds cheerfully: "Islam says Heaven is eternal, but that Hell is only temporary. Hell is like a hospital, a place where people get better...
...Roman Catholic Mass last Mother's Day, Stewart noticed one woman leaving abruptly. He followed the police ambulance that raced her to a maternity ward, and landed a story about mother and newborn baby on Page...
Almost as soon as the operator gave the alarm, the old building was full of heat and choking fumes. Flames crackled in stairwells and hallways even before the 20 newborn babies in the nursery awakened and began to cry, before St. Anthony's 30 aged men & women pensioners, its 72 other patients (some in splints and traction devices) began to struggle and call for help...
...windows, ran out to stare into a nightmare. St. Anthony's a plain, white-trimmed brick building, had stood in Effingham for 73 years; it was the only hospital in the county and its white-garbed Franciscan nuns had tended generations of the aged and the injured, the newborn and the dying. Now flame flickered and glared from behind almost every window and silhouetted frantic figures-nuns, nurses, patients in hospital gowns...
...large feet pointing outward in an obtuse angle as if to take in all the earth ... He sleeps in a fetal position and when awake moves with elegant slowness as if he lived in liquid . . . Women . . . would like always to have him in their arms like a newborn baby...