Word: preciously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other genetic defects. Had the doctors detected any serious problems, Lesley Brown could have quickly received an abortion. Observed Dr. Stuart J. Steele of London's Middlesex Hospital Medical School: "Mrs. Brown would have had all the very close medical supervision that one would expect in a particularly precious pregnancy...
...that precious pregnancy turns out will shortly be known; one estimated due date is Aug. 4, but a swing of two weeks on either side is perfectly normal. Steptoe and Edwards, for their part, must surely feel highly confident; otherwise these experienced researchers would never have allowed the pregnancy to go so far. Yet on the eve of what may well be the most awaited birth in perhaps 2,000 years, there are also still many unanswered questions. For the Brown family, it is whether their test-tube child is healthy and can ever hope to have anything resembling...
...Precious few incidents occur. Marianne, 30, decides that Bruno, her well-to do executive husband, will some day leave her, so she throws him out on the spot. Then she takes long walks through nearby woods, through an unnamed West German city and through the halls and rooms of her rented house. A friend asks her to join what seems to be a women's consciousness-raising group, but Marianne does not. She works at a translation of a French book about a woman trying to achieve independence; if there is a message here for Marianne, she does...
...rich Boston family-her brother is Lincoln Kirstein, a founder and patron of the New York City Ballet-had all the advantages of money and connections. Establishing herself in the Paris Ritz, she made it her job to befriend Proust's friends and to beg or borrow those precious letters...
Professor Emeritus Erik H. Erikson will nab one of the precious parchments. Abe Beame and John Havlicek have both declined the honor this time around...