Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pregnant woman minister, argued one antifeminist, would not bring a properly austere authority to the pulpit (replied the women: fat male ministers are hardly more inspiring). Other male supremacists somberly recounted the roles taken by priestesses (a distasteful word, sniffed the women ) in ancient orgiastic cults...
...million doses-more than 200 tons-of this vaccine have been released. Of 67 million persons in the top priority bracket (those under 20 and pregnant women). 25 million have had the recommended three injections, 22 million have had two, and 11 million have had one; 9 million remain unvaccinated. Among the 42 million in the 20 to 40 age group, 28 million remain unvaccinated, but distributors and druggists now have 23 million shots in stock. Said HEW Secretary Marion B. Folsom: "If people will use the vaccine available, it is possible to give paralytic polio a knockout blow within...
...play proceeds, an actress friend of his wife's comes to stay in the house, lashes back at him, and rouses the put-upon pregnant wife to give him the gate. But after the wife leaves Jimmy's bed and ironing board, her friend suddenly takes over both. At the end, despite her being wild about the brute, the friend clears out from a sense of guilt, while the wife, who has had a miscarriage, pleads with him to take her back...
Berliners had other names for it. Watching the structure grow, they jokingly dubbed it "the Dulleseum," and compared it to a "hooded owl peeking over a fence" or "a pregnant butterfly." But once completed, the daring structure, with its gleaming white concrete roof, soft rose and blue walls, got rave reviews. Der Tag called it "a symphony of colors and forms"; the Socialist Telegraf headlined the news, WONDER BUILDING AT THE SPREE; BERLIN'S NEW SYMBOL...
...Duke's Children. O'Connor touches on the mythology of all the sensitive young who are convinced they must have sprung from nobler loins than those of their earthbound parents; in Fish for Friday, a man's race for the doctor to attend his pregnant wife is slowed to an alcoholic crawl by a succession of pubs and pals until the quest finally blurs into a blue forgetfulness; in A Bachelor's Story, crusty Archie Boland comes to the belated knowledge that his one narrow escape from matrimony was actually his last chance of happiness. Author...