Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...illness or emotional stress in a pregnant woman damage the child? For the most part, doctors have tended to answer no, but now they are far less certain...
Item: countless pregnant women are subjected to outside emotional stresses, such as loss of husband by death or desertion, serious illness or death of a child, loss of income, housing problems. Item: many also suffer mysterious internal stresses apparently brought on by pregnancy, e.g., continued uterine bleeding or toxemia, an ill-defined, little-understood condition believed to be caused by unidentified poisons, often accompanied by high blood pressure, liver or kidney disease. Item: countless babies are born sickly, or with obvious deformities, or with impaired mental powers. Doctors are asking themselves what connection there is between these facts...
When wife Carmen, who was a solo dancer for the Metropolitan Opera ballet, became pregnant, Holder filled in for her, shook the house to its staid foundations when he appeared in a white bikini...
...Labyrinths. The plot slithers like a water moccasin through the canebrakes among four narrators and unnumbered previous Faulkner books; it more or less turns around the fact that Eula, daughter of the old. failed squire Varner, has become pregnant-though nobody is sure by whom. Varner marries her off to Flem Snopes, who advances from shortest-order cook to bank vice president, then moves up several more rungs of Jefferson's social ladder when he permits "Major" De Spain to cuckold him with Eula. His motives are Snopesean and Faulknerian: through a kind of sexual osmosis, he hopes that...
...Bachelor Party, the second hyper-realistic effort of Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, is about the stunning weight of responsibility, and the revulsion from it, that a young man feels when his wife becomes pregnant for the first time. His protest against the complications of a home and family that are about to entangle him for life becomes a desire to sleep with a young woman he meets in Greenwich Village on the night of the party...