Word: navel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortunetellers and sorcerers, attended dances, investigated charms, drank palm wine (it tasted like flat ginger ale), picked up stray bits of local lore. Sample: as fee, a Bangangté midwife is given the bananas on the tree where she has hung the sliver of bamboo used in cutting the navel cord...
...baby was born, was adopted by the grandparents and named Mary Joan Gibson. She died at the age of twelve days of bleeding at the navel. Her father went to Sing Sing; her mother married Walter Mitchell Schubert in 1936; her grandparents, dropped out of the Social Register, remained at "Tappancroft," their integrity and independence intact (TIME...
Last week Barbara Stobie was delivered of this monstrosity. As an artist and photographers recorded the scene, Surgeon Clarence William Brunkow made a seven-inch incision from the tip of her breast bone past the left of her navel. Lying horizontally within her abdomen, between the top of her stomach and her spine, was a skin-like sac. Segments of Barbara's bowels were fastened to this...
Next came the plow posture, "one of the finest exercises for keeping the spine flexible and the nerves healthy." The disciple lies on his back, slowly brings legs and torso over his head until the toes touch the floor and he can gaze only at his navel...
When Californians suffer a fruit-killing frost, as last week, Floridians quietly gloat. When Floridians suffer a tree-destroying hurricane, as a year ago last autumn, Californians gloat. But until this winter growers of California navel oranges and growers of Florida Valencia oranges have discreetly avoided talking down the other fellows' fruit in northern cities where the chief customers of both live. The California Fruit Growers Exchange broke this discreet merchandising convention this winter by advertising flatly in newspapers and magazines, on streetcar cards and billboards: "Sunkist navel oranges are 22% richer in vitamin C [anti-scurvy, anti-colds...