Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mintoff's eyes, the prospective firing of the naval dock workers was a "pregnant symbol" that Britain did not intend to meet his demands. He seemed cheerfully oblivious of the fact that his threatened break with Britain would mean that not just 40 but all 13,000 dockyard workers would be out of work. Mintoff shouted to cheering crowds: "If Britain comes against us with hydrogen or atom bombs...they will not be able to govern Malta against our people's will...
...absolute requisite. The trouble is, everyone's life in this country is public property. Anyone who objects to the intrusion of his private life is considered to be idiosyncratic, bizarre, uncooperative and dishonest." Uncooperatively, Brando would mumble not a word about his marriage or his pregnant wife, Variable Starlet Johanna ("Anna Kashfi") O'Callaghan Brando, who keeps uncooperatively insisting that she is a Bengalese Indian from Darjeeling (where nobody ever heard the name Kashfi...
...only with Baptists. He ridiculed Waco's Sunday blue laws, mocked how the town fretted about liquor sales while it licensed prostitutes. He seized avidly on the scandal of a 14-year-old Brazilian girl who, studying at Baylor and living in the home of its president, became pregnant and charged that she was raped by the brother of the president's Baptist minister...
Dark, devout Antonietta, then 20, became pregnant and began to suffer agonizing pains, during which her sight became clouded, and she prayed fervently to the Madonna for deliverance. Then, she recalls, on the morning of Aug. 29, 1953, in the midst of one of these seizures, "I saw tears pouring down the Madonna's face. It was incredible. For a moment I thought I was mad. She was crying like a child. Then I began to shout, 'La Madonnina piange [The little Madonna is weeping...
...long before Clift takes to the high grass again, but not to look for trees. A deranged Southern belle (played with whoops, whimpers and childbed eye-rolling by Elizabeth Taylor) thereafter convinces him that she is pregnant, and he marries her. Eva Marie looks distressed, but maintains her maiden faith. Sure enough, everything turns out all right: Fort Sumter is shot up, Elizabeth Taylor goes completely insane, Atlanta is burned again (it looked hotter in Gone With the Wind), Clift gets wounded, Lincoln is assassinated, and finally there is a fond fadeout between Clift and Eva Marie...