Word: unwantedness
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In most women, at some stages of the disease, breast cancer can be slowed down or actually made to shrink by the male sex hormone testosterone. But this has unwanted side effects, causing many patients to grow beards and develop deep voices. Some women, Dr. Segaloff noted, put feminine charm...
For a day or two, the unwonted freedom seemed also unwanted. Patients like Housemaid Anna, who had been in the hospital for ten years, did not know what to make of it. One man had devoted most of his waking hours during 20 locked-up years to testing every door...
The committee based part of its argument on a statement of practical problems: the worldwide "population explosion," high incidence of abortion, Christianity's occasional tendency to escape reality by taking refuge in tradition. Says the report: "The extremely high rates of abortion in many regions, Eastern and Western, with...
She was the daughter of an immigrant Greek druggist in New York, a fat ugly duckling with myopic eyes, who turned to singing to forget the feeling of being unwanted in a broken home. He was a middle-aged Italian building-materials tycoon. Under his loving care, the fat duckling...
But exam period has not yet begun and the library is already full. If the warm weather of last week returns, Lamont may be one of the few cool places left in the College. To stem the flood of refugees from the heat, Lamont might well check bursar's cards...