Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Antonia Fleming is beautiful; her husband Conrad is brilliant, but as a schoolmaster once wrote on his report, "bloody-minded." Antonia holds a dinner party to celebrate the engagement of her dim son, Julian, to an even dimmer girl. Her daughter Deirdre, pregnant by one man, is about to marry another. Antonia's husband has moved elsewhere. Antonia is found at her dinner table with her devoted maid clearing away from the table the service her husband will never use again, and mooning mistily on a possible affair with a tall, thin intellectual type. It is a situation...
...Court majority ruled that Wisconsin had a right to halt a prolonged, violence-ridden strike against the Kohler Co., a plumbing-equipment firm. But Warren, Black and Douglas dissented vigorously. Arguing that the Wisconsin fair labor statute duplicated federal law, Justice Douglas wrote that the overlapping of remedies was "pregnant with potentialities of clashes and conflicts" and that the court majority was opening the door "to unseemly conflicts between state and federal agencies...
...expanding monthly output (9,500,000 cc. in May), 60% now goes to public agencies for free clinics and distribution to local doctors. The rest goes through normal sales channels to druggists and M.D.s. Scheele urged doctors to give high-priority coverage to children under 15 and to pregnant women...
Deborah not only gets bamboozled; she gets pregnant. When she learns that bad Col. Bill Holden already has a wife, she takes what appears to be The Only Way Out and tries to fling herself from a cliff. Holden saves her, but so clumsily that she is nearly brained in the process. Will she recover? Yes. Will she lose the embarrassing baby? Naturally...
...promptly transferred. Even one of the prison matrons was said to have warned all rival females: "Leave McKerrow alone. He's my man!" -although McKerrow himself vigorously denied having relationships with anyone but a dusky teen-ager on the outside named Christine Goa, whom he had made pregnant...