Word: womb
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this evidence, Asian flu joins German measles as a crippler and killer of children in the womb...
...book also contains a playlet "by Tennessee Gleckle," which "takes place entirely in the womb of an unborn lamb...
When babies stay in the womb too long, said Dr. Nechtow, the death rate is three times that of normal-term babies. One reason: the placenta may shrink, so the fetus is forced to live off his own tissues and loses weight. At the same time, the difficulty of delivery increases, with more frequent breech presentations, use of mid-forceps and Caesarean section. While Dr. Nechtow warned the G.P.s against resorting lightly to drastic measures, he urged them not to hesitate to induce labor or do a Caesarean section if the examination convinces them that the time is overripe...
...never used them. Gifted but a little balmy, Anna primes herself for school each morning with half a tumbler of brandy, frequently gets the weeps, talks persuasively to trees and flowers, has stupendous headaches in Technicolor. Wildly alive, Anna flinches only at the thought of her empty womb. She knows her enemies, "all married women," and has a pronounced allergy to "smug men using women and then cruising off and leaving them to clean...
...scratching of navels, the threat, the portentous horror, indeed, the phantasmagorical folly of appeasement, of a Munich, if you please, in the face of great decisions which may determine the future of the entire Arabian peninsula, perhaps of the whole Western World, centering in arid Iraq, cradle of civilization, womb of nationalism, cocoon of Communism's conspiratorial caprices, where the stupendous clash of incompatible ideologies generates a maelstrom of incredible tautological complexity which, if only time would allow, I would be delighted to analyze down to the most delicate detail, but with the grader's forbearance I shall...