Word: womb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death...
...Womb & Wing. The purists were horrified, and Saarinen's work was always to be controversial. In his U.S. embassy in London he attempted to adapt a wholly modern building to the Georgian style...
Grosvenor Square. To many critics, the compromise failed. Nevertheless, there was always in Saarinen's designs-from his famous "womb" chair to the soaring, winged, 6,000-ton concrete roof of his TWA terminal at Idlewild to his new Dulles International Airport at Chantilly, Va., with its moving waiting room-a daring, a willingness to experiment with form that few of his contemporaries had. "An architect must have a combination of sensitivity and crust," he said, and he had both...
Federal control, beginning with the Food and Drug Act of 1906, gradually cut down the nostrum peddlers' bombast. Labeling requirements forced Lydia Pinkham's heirs to note that her vegetable compound for "falling of the womb and other female weaknesses" contained "18% of alcohol," but they piously insisted that it was there "solely as a solvent and preservative." Parker's "True Tonic" for "in ebriates" gave its victims a hair of the dog with 41.6% alcohol (83 proof...
...Womb of Time." Judge Learned Hand often seemed almost to scoff at the law he served. "The aim of the law.'' he once said, "is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man." He was a legal secularist, denying the existence of a natural law and cautioning younger judges not to "embrace the exhilarating opportunity of anticipating a doctrine which may be in the womb of time, but whose birth is distant." He was also a charitable judge who could write, in reversing a lower court's refusal to grant citizenship to a woman because...