Word: pregnants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spanish newspapers printed disturbing reports of Moroccan savagery against Spanish civilians: one eyewitness said he had seen the mangled body of a pregnant Spanish woman who had been raped, then disemboweled by tribesmen. (By contrast, said a Madrid communique. Spanish forces gave humane consideration to the "wife of a well-known extremist who fled his village, leaving her behind with three children of less than three years. Every time our planes flew over the village, they remembered to drop by parachute condensed milk and food for the little ones...
...rape does not mean pregnancy in children so young except in rare cases." In 30 years as an obstetrician he had seen four such cases in girls under eleven; Hilda Trujillo was only the second youngest. Eighteen years before he assisted in the case of the youngest: Lina Medina, pregnant at the age of five years, eight months; mother, by Caesarean section, of a normal boy at the age of six years, five months (TIME...
...cerebral palsy is caused, Dr. Perlstein believes, by the mother's illnesses during pregnancy (especially German measles, but also anemia and diabetes) and Rh incompatibility-though this last cause has fallen in frequency from 10% to less than 3%, now that doctors are paying closer attention to pregnant women's blood groups. Finally, 10% of cases result from injuries in childhood...
...world's as well. Because of this tragic split, the true faith-symbolized by a pathetic lunatic who imagines that he is the Christ of the Second Coming-wanders in alienation; and because there is no real religion, the world's soul-symbolized by a pregnant woman-dies in giving birth to a dead future. In the end a child's faith works a miracle, restoring religion, and through the power of religion restoring the soul to life...
...axles, bright September blows into the theater, tingling in the thoughts like merry harvest weather. Director Dreyer loves the human face ("A land one can never tire of exploring"), and he has chosen his faces with a sure insight. Best of all, perhaps, are the faces of the pregnant woman (Birgitte Federspiel) and her husband (Emil Haas Christensen), which make a simple, touching revelation: that they are deeply and quietly and naturally in love...