A doll-like symbol of hope.THIS little war baby is the future of Kosovo. Like other doll-like figures at a maternity MATERNITY. The state or condition of a mother. 2. It is either legitimate or natural. The former is the condition of the mother who has given birth to legitimate children, while the latter is the condition of her who has given birth to illegitimate children. hospital in Macedonia, she is a symbol of hope. Mothers, exhausted and traumatised, are close to tears. Yet the pink faces of the infants shine in defiance Defiance, city (1990 pop. 16,768), seat of Defiance co., NW Ohio, at the confluence of the Auglaize and Maumee rivers, in a farm area; settled 1790, inc. 1836. Its manufactures include machinery and food, fabricated-metal, and glass products. Gen. of a tinpot tinpot Adjective Informal worthless or unimportant: a tinpot dictator Adj. 1. tinpot - inferior (especially of a country's leadership); "he's a tinpot Hitler" dictator dictator, originally a Roman magistrate appointed to rule the state in times of emergency; in modern usage, an absolutist or autocratic ruler who assumes extraconstitutional powers. From 501 B.C. until the abolition of the office in 44 B.C., Rome had 88 dictators. . The children will make sure future generations do not forget Serbia's shame. As she held day-old Aulona, Leonara, 24, was still tired from the birth. She and her husband were driven from their home as Serb police looted loot n. 1. Valuables pillaged in time of war; spoils. 2. Stolen goods. 3. Informal Goods illicitly obtained, as by bribery. 4. and murdered their way through the town. She was forced on to a train and spent two days in a field before Aulona was about to be delivered. She says: "When they were throwing us out of Pristina it was terrible and I thought I would lose her. I wanted to give her a good home, but now I have no home." In the chaos of war, countless babies died before they took their first breath of the stench and disease-filled air around them. They were taken from their mothers and thrown into the fast-flowing murky river that was used for days as a mass toilet for the refugees. One who survived was a boy born an hour after his mother, Zoje Morina, 27, reached a safer spot in Macedonia. Zoje said: "I may never see my husband again, but I have his son. That is why I have named him Freedom." |
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