Word: transplanted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roman Catholic Church, the fact that a child is being used as a pawn is shocking. Being a real parent involves far more than bringing a child into the world. To uproot little Hildy McCoy [TIME, July 18] from the only security and love she knows and transplant her is like putting a family pet into the city dog pound...
...grafting skin or body organs from one human being to another, the best that surgeons can hope for with their present skills is a temporary "take." After a while, the recipient's system develops antibodies against the transplant and it withers away.* A transplanted kidney may serve as a crutch until the patient's own kidneys can recover, as apparently happened in the famed case of Chicago's Mrs. Howard Tucker (TIME, June 11, 1951). But last week Boston surgeons had the chance of a lifetime: to transplant a kidney to the donor's identical twin...
...Perhaps you here in your part of the country are not aware of . . . how much of a breath of fresh air you are blowing into the stagnant and inconsequential backwaters of the large Eastern cities . . . Make the best of our world and rejoice in it, rather than attempt to transplant a dying Europeanism...
...attribute no divinity to Mary. Prayer for her intercession does not "transplant faith from Christ . . ." nor does it "displace the Third Person of the Trinity." Any Roman Catholic holding that it did would be liable to excommunication . . . The last paragraph of the article is not only unintelligent but a little degrading - to accuse men who have dedicated their chastity to God of substituting in their imaginations the Virgin Mary "to occupy the place of a wife...
...Vermont's Putney School, they had long since come to the conclusion that a little creative manual labor is just what modern education needs. This year, after months of planning, they pooled their slim savings, bundled their two children and furniture onto a truck, set out to transplant the Putney idea in the West. The place they picked was a log ranch house with a couple of chicken coops, located in Roaring Fork Valley, 30 miles northwest of Aspen...