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...Time for Fear (Harper; $3.50), he reports that he found what he was looking for. Among Bushmen and Basutos, Hottentots and Masai, from 95% to 98% go through childbirth like his own prize patients, with no untoward pain. Notable exceptions are women who have committed adultery: they often have long and difficult labor. Dr. Dick Read was amazed to learn of women who had been in painful labor for two or three days but who, when persuaded to confess their adultery, suddenly relaxed and "released the baby from the birth canal in a few minutes with no further trouble." These...
...that I can say where the path of duty is ... It is a very critical thing to change governments in this country at a time that it is unexpected. We accustom ourselves, and so do foreign governments, changing our government every four years, but always something happens that is untoward when a government is changed at other times. It is a rather startling thing. They tell me that [there was] even some disturbance in the stock market at the time I got sick...
...north is barbaric. As arrival day approached, the bazaars swarmed with secret police, who questioned strangers and put suspicious persons under house arrest for the duration of the Russians' visit. Along the three-mile route from the airport into the capital, families were warned that any untoward incident might bring death to every member of the household...
Secretary (warming to her subject): Let me finish. Isn't that what the smoker is for, after all, and here you get the same effect with no chance of a disturbance. Why, I've heard several students say that nothing untoward ever happens at a Radcliffe formal...
...raise taxes but love to raise the salaries of government workers. Since the Assembly cannot increase the government's allocations, its favorite device for forcing the government to increase salaries is to send any budget item back to committee. Mendes sternly warned that he would tolerate no "untoward maneuvers." Unbelieving, the members of the Assembly went right ahead, prepared to send back to committee the estimate for the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs...