Word: wombs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delegates from 13 countries compiled an impressive list of ills to which the conscientious housewife is heir. The outstanding ones: dermatitis ("dishpan hands" from allergy to cleansing agents), neuritis, neuroses, varicose veins, low back pain, fallen womb, peptic ulcers, inflamed muscles, vitamin deficiencies, arthritis, flat feet...
...Bombay, cancer of the mouth, esophagus and penis is commoner than in New York, but cancer of the stomach, womb, breast and skin is rarer than in either New York or London (though the overall incidence of cancer is about the same). Cancer types vary between sects: Parsee women have more than three times as much breast cancer as cancer of the mouth of the womb, but the opposite is true among Hindu women...
...Cordelia was pure pathos. In portraying the fall of Lear from king to disillusioned father, to madman, to dying, bereaved old man, Devlin combines the grandeur of the king and the weakness of the old man. He binds the magnificent curse of his miscreant daughter Generil ("Into her womb convey sterility"), and the moving vision of life in prison with Cordelia ("So we'll live and pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies") into a believable picture of King Lear. He does full justice to a superhuman part...
...Some of Attlee's followers called it Socialism; some called it "fair shares for all"; some called it the welfare state. Winston Churchill last week scornfully snarled out another name for it: "Queuetopia." Spendthrift's End? Whatever it was, the regime of queues and 40% taxes and womb-to-tomb security had come to judgment. On Feb. 23, Britain's voters would decide whether the Labor Party should have another five-year grant of power to continue and extend their experiment...