Word: wombs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, the implications of being shut up in a simultaneously phallic and womb like ship, looking wistfully at snapshots of the mountainous fatherland while sinking helplessly deeper and deeper under the sea are there for those who want to explore them. But Petersen concentrates on the nitty gritty of maintaining a ship through attack after attack; his pacing maintains excitement without fail. The same limits of space that enhance the scenes of suspense, where we must suffer with the crew, listening to the watery ping of sonar gingerly feeling out the submarine before it is slammed by bombs, might have...
...guilt comes with you, not in the bag with the kotex and the pills, but in the emptiness in your stomach where the breakfast should be and in the death you believe is your womb; in the concern from the people you did tell and in the secrets you keep from the ones you didn't; in the arguments you hear amongst your classmates at meals; in the jokes and stories you see on television and in magazines; in the ghosts you find in the eyes of young children; in the blood that comes every month like a wound that...
...lingo: they don't talk the patient's language. A woman will ask a doctor if she has her uterus out, can she have children. Harvard (which used to be affiliated with Boston City Hospital) has not been able to communicate to poor people, like using the word 'womb' instead of 'uterus' to explain," she adds...
Eight days later, University of Pennsylvania Veterinarian James Evans, who earlier this year had supervised another miracle of animal husbandry-the birth of the first "test-tube" domestic cow-flushed five embryos from the gaur's womb. Four of these were transferred into four Holstein cows, selected in part because their calves are larger than gaur calves. Though the reproductive cycles of all five animals had been synchronized with drugs, one cow did not accept the embryo. Another aborted after five months. The third delivered a dead fetus at 9½ months. But two weeks later, Flossie produced...
...people, we mean all people--these that are currently deeply reactionary, those that are currently deeply progressive. We want a society in which every baby that comes out of its mother's womb has a chance for a full, rich, long life, without exception. --The Spartacus Youth League