Word: womb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their wills. As he was later to view them, his mother's efforts began before Jackson was born. "As testimony of her love, and her fear for the fate of the man-child all slave mothers hold, she attempted to press, hide, push, capture me in the womb. The conflicts and contradictions that will follow me to the tomb started right there in the womb...
...mother's attempts at continuing the holding action met with an increasing lack of success once Jackson was out of the womb. He and his older sister. Delora, "were sometimes allowed to venture out into the world, which at that time meant no further than a fenced-off roof area adjoining our little three-room apartment...But, of course, I went out when I pleased." Occasionally, Jackson's determination to discover resulted in near-disasters, as when, in the interests of science, he dropped a book of flaming matches into a fifty-gallon drum of oil. The holding action...
...Perhaps you have not felt the pressures of recession, regression and repression, or borne the weight of inflation, intimidation and inaction," Kennedy said. "If so, then the womb of Mother Harvard is even thicker than I thought...
...nurses as well as patients, is that a fetus will be born alive. Claims by anti-abortion groups that doctors routinely throw "screaming, wriggling bundles of humanity" into garbage cans are unfounded. But despite laws banning abortions after the 24th week, well before a fetus can survive outside the womb, "live births" do occur. The reason, often, is that the date of conception has been miscalculated or misstated by the woman. At least 40 fetuses have reportedly been born "alive" in New York. All died within hours, despite doctors' efforts to maintain life...
...entirely possible that the first words of the first psychiatrist were "Return to the womb." That classic concept a search for primal security-is precisely what French Designer Claude Vidili had in mind when he came up with the idea for his "Isolation Sphere," a tough and thick polyester shell almost six feet in diameter that is soundproof and guarantees privacy even in the midst of chaos. To retreat from the world, it is necessary only to step inside and close the door...