Word: womb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...antibodies into the developing child's bloodstream to cause stillbirth, brain damage or a miscarriage. Rh disease kills 10,000 babies in the U.S. each year. Until recently, the only treatment was to replace virtually the entire blood supply of the fetus with a massive transfusion in the womb...
...Minister of New Zealand and architect of the free world's first comprehensive social security system; of a heart attack; in Wellington. A stocky socialist, Nash used his post as Minister of Finance in New Zealand's long-running (1935-49) Labor government to push through a womb-to-tomb measure that provided everything from butter to baby bonuses; he became Prime Minister in 1957, but taxed his utopians so heavily that they ousted him from office three years later...
...about hypocrisy and perhaps think too much of ourselves for having unveiled the forked tongue of the Establishment. We have, like each new batch of rebels, tried to tickle the testicles of society in order to shake something loose, inject a little jism, a hopeful seed into the metallic womb of America...
...this thing will work again. Since February and the days when Hershey told us we all had to go, only one thing has changed--we have been successful. Everyone wants to be on our side, really to put us on their side. We are being sucked up into the womb again, back to where we came from, safe and sound. But don't let them fool us: we are alone. And until we realize it, these will remain the worst of times, even though the war is over...
...reporters were "crybabies" it was principally because the McCarthy organization did a poor job of feeding them the Pablum which is the constant diet of most newsmen covering campaigns. Most reporters--particularly those from the wire services and the second-rate dailies--remain encased in the womb of the press bus or plane and file a stream of speech stories, color stories, and isolated voter reaction stories fed to them in press releases or by word of mouth by the candidate's press staff. In between deadlines, they gossip about politician, view the scenery, or ask around for the name...