Word: womb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Laborite Aneurin Bevan set up Britain's "womb-to-tomb" National Health Service a generation ago, he responded to doctors' opposition by declaring, "I shall stop their mouths with money." Their criticisms have never really ceased, however, and in recent months NHS doctors have been objecting with increasing vehemence to a government plan that could severely curtail the lucrative private practices many of the senior specialists maintain on the side. Last week their resentment finally erupted into action. In the first nationwide strike since NHS was founded, the 15,000 junior physicians who provide much...
...historian of the Rhodes Trust, himself an ex-warden of Rhodes House, calls the founder's vision one of "Oxford as a nursery of leaders, the energizing source of Empire and the womb of a thousand years of peace for mankind." Michael E. Kinsley '72, a second year law student and former Rhodes scholar, says that to the extent that Rhodes's idea was "to turn the future leaders of America into Anglophiles, it makes perfect sense for women to be admitted" to the foundation. Now that three Oxford colleges have gone co-ed, he says, there isn't really...
Harvard is like a womb, sheltering you for four years. As Samuel Pitts Duffield '92 put it in a Class...
...Cavafy was drawn to poetry. Certainly there was no artistic strain evident in his family. He was born and christened Constantine Photiadis Cavafy (originally Kavafis), the last of seven brothers. His mother, Haricleia, was so bent on having a girl that she referred to him as "Helen" in the womb and dressed him in frocks during his early years...
Your story attacked the frightening state of crime in America with pillows and those never-say-die cliches. Oh, you mentioned those nasty words like deterrence and punishment, but your obvious desire to quickly return to the womb of "humanism" had me laughing through my teeth...