Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girl. One (Vicki Cummings), worldly and anxious for security and comfort, snares a conventionally religious Roman Catholic; their life is shallow but unshaken. The other girl (Viveca Lindfors), serious and independent-minded, rushes into an intense love affair with a bitter, harshly unsentimental young writer who, when she becomes pregnant, refuses to marry her. She, on the brink of suicide, responds to some inner voice; he, finally on the brink of despair, returns...
Four years later, in 1933, he got the tough job of curing the sick Buick division. Buick had been plagued by a series of poor-selling cars (the "pregnant Buick"); its sales had dropped 85%. With his knowledge of design and sales, Curtice put out a new series that caught on immediately, doubled Buick's sales in one year...
...Sieve's claims: 298 couples, all of whom must have been fertile because they had had at least one child, took his pills daily for periods ranging from three months to 2½ years. During this time, said Dr. Sieve (pronounced seevy), none of the wives became pregnant. But when 220 couples stopped taking the pills because they had decided it was time to have another child, all the wives conceived within three months...
...woman, Nina. A young orphan girl in a declining family in England of the 1890s, she is in love all her life with her cousin and childhood friend Jim Latter. When she is still in her teens, not yet mistress of her mind or her emotions, he gets her pregnant. To prevent scandal, her strong-minded guardian, Aunt Latter, marries her off to Chester Nimmo, a bright but poor local chap. Chester, twice Nina's age, is aware of her condition but considers the marriage a bargain. It means a tie-up with a family still socially important...
...Gary's singular explanation of what he thinks he is doing is drowned and swept away in the torrent of what he actually does. From the pregnant chaos of his books something better and more beautiful emerges than a neat pseudo-world of ideas: he has "created" human' beings, men, women & children, alive and kicking...