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Word: pregnant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book by S. N. Behrman & Joshua Logan, based on a trilogy by Marcel Pagnol; music and lyrics by Harold Rome) might have come off far better had it been done on a shoestring. For its very Gallic story of the Marseille waterfront-of a young girl who finds herself pregnant after her sea-crazed lover sails away, and of her marriage to a widower who loves her and craves a child-is a ticklish compound of sentiment and hard sense, of ruefulness and worldliness, that requires delicately simple treatment. As a play enfolded in music, it could be both piquant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Nov. 15, 1954 | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...police (George Raft) discover that the girl did not commit suicide-she was murdered. Furthermore, she was pregnant. Things look bad for the producer. However, there is still the couple upstairs to be considered (Ginger Rogers and Reginald Gardiner) and the boy friend down in the Village (Skip Homeier). Producer Johnson manages very cleverly to keep all these oranges in the air until the next-to-last scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 8, 1954 | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...vaccine proves effective, the foundation will offer the shots without cost to: 1,390,000 children who served as "controls" in the 1954 trials but did not get the vaccine; 4,825,000 youngsters now in the first grade; and 4,275,000 women who will be pregnant between April and September. (These figures add up to 10,490,000, but only 85% are expected to take shots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Gamble | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

...came an opportunity born of disaster. General Motors' Buick, for years a notable success as the safe, sound and respectable "doctor's car," was in dire trouble. It had gone up in price, fallen behind in styling, grown fat and heavy (one model was inelegantly nicknamed the "pregnant Buick," the "bedpan Buick" and the "bathtub Buick"). When Depression struck, it hit Buick square in its middle-age spread, and Buick's share of the auto market dropped from more than 8% to 2.9%, a mere 43,809 cars. G.M. directors talked darkly of dropping Buick from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Battle of Detroit | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

Guilty of Murder. At her trial, Ruby McCollum testified that "more than a doctor-patient relationship" existed between her and Dr. Adams. He was, in fact, said Ruby McCollum. the father of her fourth child, and she was pregnant with another child of his when she poured four bullets into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Case of Ruby McCollum | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

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