Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hopeless when he tried to make one, and in any case the matters that usually absorbed him were not to be joked about. He was never rich and often in debt. Tragedy came to him when his eldest son George ran into debt, got a young girl pregnant and finally committed suicide...
...conceded that his fiction came from deep in American life. Dreiser could not bear a world in which beloved brothers could die friendless, in which foreign aristocrats could sneer, wax rich and make wars, in which women-as in An American Tragedy-could be murdered because they became pregnant at socially inappropriate times...
Flat Liars. The statement said that the American-born Mrs. Maclean, who was pregnant at the time her husband fled, "arrived with her children in the Soviet Union in 1953." This made flat liars out of Russian leaders, up to and including Nikita Khrushchev, who have denied repeatedly, formally and informally, that they knew the whereabouts of the two traitors or their kith...
...Marx in Das Kapital: "Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with...
...notes in it." ("Sire, just as many as there ought to be," Mozart retorted.) Nor did Mozart's wife Constanze (younger sister of his old love, Aloysia) see his greatness. She had her own creating to do. Of their nine years of marriage, she spent all but three pregnant, delivered six sickly children. Four died in infancy; two survived...