Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dever said recently, has "no more understanding of the problems of the men and women who must work for a living than a blind man of colors." But to the Republican, perturbed about innumerable men clocking cars on useless roads during the campaign, Herter will cut down pregnant payrolls...
...Epstein's old shockers were in the Tate exhibit, e.g., his 1931 Genesis, showing a heavy-featured woman clutching her pregnant, outthrust belly. "Repellent as ever," observed the Times. But no one was much shocked this time, though the public still preferred his powerfully modeled portrait heads. The famous ones-Albert Einstein with his lofty brow and fiercely energetic hair; Nehru, smoldering with deep-eyed intensity; Haile Selassie, imperious in thin-drawn pride; Somerset Maugham, his expression twisted and wry-had the impact of enormously effective sketches, superbly drawn...
...Last week British researchers reported an early lead in that direction. They had made an extract from a common countryside herb called gromwell (Lithospermum officinale) and given it first to female rats. The rats stopped ovulating. When the gromwell was stopped, they promptly resumed ovulating and proved, by becoming pregnant, that their fertility had been only temporarily arrested...
Would you risk certain death at the hands of the Nazi's to rescue a pregnant cow? Would you toss away fame and fortune to set up a national park in the jungles of East Africa? Well, maybe you wouldn't, but knobby-kneed David Niven and unknown John Steel take care of those two little things in this week's double bill at the Exeter...
During the depression, the News printed a letter pleading for a job for Michael Moroney, who was broke and whose wife was pregnant with a second child. Next day a young woman, who said she was a social worker, showed up at the Moroney home with groceries and took two-year-old Mary Agnes Moroney "around the corner" to buy her clothes. She never came back with the child. The last word about Mary Agnes came a week later. An unidentified woman wrote the Moroneys that "my cousin. Julia Otis" had taken the girl in grief over the loss...