Word: womanizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Scandinavia indicate that at least some of the injuries to the fetus may be corrected in the womb if a mother gives up alcohol before her third trimester. Says Sterling Clarren, professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine: "It's pretty clear if a woman stops drinking in her second trimester, the size and the healthiness of the baby will improve, but there is no evidence that its intelligence will improve." Moreover, even the improvement in appearance may be deceptive. "The babies definitely are bigger and look healthier," says Dr. Sokol, "but that doesn't mean...
...that USAir simply wanted to clear two seats on an overbooked plane, and has demanded an apology from the company's president plus the cost of two first-class tickets from New York to Los Angeles for the embarrassing episode. Says she: "On the next flight, I asked a woman if we smelled, and she said...
...Hitlerian pathology became more pronounced. He now regarded his audience as feminine: "The mass, the people, is for me a woman," ready to be seduced. But the seduction was figurative; the woman who seemed to beguile him most was Carola Hoffmann, an elderly widow. He frequently visited his admirer's home in a suburb of Munich, where she did his laundry and indulged his sweet tooth; acquaintances were once astonished to see Adolf put seven spoonfuls of sugar in his tea. When Frau Hoffmann offered to buy him a gift, he suggested a rhinoceros-hide dog whip like...
Among the others swept away were two pretty frauleins. One was Hitler's unstable niece Geli Raubal, the only woman he ever truly loved. It was a sad and unfulfilled affair. On a September evening in 1931, after an argument with & her uncle, Raubal fatally shot herself. He had only one subsequent lover, a young blond named Eva Braun. In 1932, frustrated by Hitler's inattention, she also aimed a pistol at herself, but the attempt failed. Nearly 13 years later, under Berlin's streets, the drama would be eerily restaged when Hitler took Braun for his bride, 40 hours...
...only American correspondent in the city. "I saw able-bodied men working in pitiful bucket brigades along with stooped, old, long-bearded men in long black coats and skullcaps. Apartment houses whose sides had been ripped out earlier in the day were now ravaged by flames. An old woman stood in front of the ruins of her home, a teakettle steaming on her stove but fire coming from the burning building. There was a skeleton on an iron bedstead nearby. She was dazed and poking in the hot ashes. Nearby a little boy was playing with a football...