Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sacred Ponds. In India, which the shadow reached just before sundown, came a kind of climax. For hours before the eclipse, orthodox Hindus had fasted, lest the food in their stomachs be polluted before it could be digested. Pregnant women hid in dark closets. At the sacred ponds of Kurukshetra and Sanyahet, near Delhi, waited 500,000 pilgrims who believed that during a solar eclipse all the sacred rivers of the world would flow into the two ponds, and that to bathe in them at that time would purge the soul of all sins. Since both the ponds were nearly...
Early last week a group of them came to Arbenz' mahogany-paneled office, and their spokesman, Colonel Ruben Gonzalez Sigui, posed a quiet, pregnant question...
...their plows through the rich, black mud, relying upon Vietnamese flags mounted on sticks to convince the troops they were loyal. In a few harvested paddies there were beds of deep purple flowers. A mine suddenly blew up one of our trucks, but the explosion did not bother a pregnant woman padding impassively along with her bare-bottomed child and her geese. French artillery opened fire, yet a couple of peasants dog-trotted calmly past the guns with a brace of squealing pigs suspended from a pole. They did not waste their glances upon the foreigners and their machines...
...Gastonia, N.C., the county draft board received a letter: "Dear Sir: I am suffering from romantic fever and my wife is pregnant. . . Please excuse me from the draft...
...Trumbull Park riots, the most sustained in Chicago's history. Howard hoped that his retreat would make life easier for the other Negro families, but in the tense South Side, hate is not easily appeased. Recently, a teenage gang stoned two Trumbull Park Negro women, both pregnant, as they walked home from a grocery store. Chicago expected trouble in the sultry summer nights ahead...