Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Cuban Army tank and armored-car crews stopped the shooting three hours later, Tro and three supporters were dead. So was the pregnant wife of the house owner. Another man died later of wounds. A ten-month-old baby and eleven others were wounded. The shooting had lasted long enough for a movie cameraman to record it in detail. Army Chief Genovevo Perez Damera saw the film, denounced the affair as a "monstrous assassination." He ordered Salabarria and several of his followers charged with murder and began a general roundup of Salabarria partisans...
Frau Koch's husband, the former commander of Buchenwald, was long since executed in one of his own butcher chambers for mishandling Nazi party funds. For the last two years his widow has been kept in closely guarded U.S. Army prisons. Despite this, she was eight months pregnant...
Australian doctors were marveling last week at a baby story in their Medical Journal. The baby's young mother, when seven months pregnant, had accidentally shot herself in the abdomen. A surgeon found that the .22 bullet had gone through her uterus. He sewed up the mother's wounds, deciding against a Caesarean for fear of infection. Five days later a premature 5½ lb. baby was born alive and healthy except for a bloodless bullet hole drilled neatly through its thigh...
...candid admission that "I'm a tired old party. . . . At my age, the spark begins to dim." The exception is The Unconquered, a story about occupied France in which a French girl is raped by a German soldier. Later the soldier comes back, learns that the girl is pregnant, falls in love with her and wants to marry her. In her hatred for the German and what he symbolizes, she refuses, drowns his child on the day it is born...
Across 6,000 miles, Joe flashed the message. The anxious group on the atoll carefully followed the doctor's orders. A nurse on the island, Mrs. Robert Steed, though eight months pregnant, turned out to give the plasma transfusion. By that time, Radio-Ham Barnes was talking to surgeons attached to Hawaii's Hickam Field, getting more instructions. When a rescue plane and an Army surgeon arrived five hours later from Hickam, they found that Radioman Buster Bailey was still holding on. By nightfall he was resting comfortably in a Hawaiian hospital...