Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stranded in Shrewsbury, she earned her keep as a barmaid. In Lon don, she got a job in the chorus of one of Andre Chariot's revues, understudied Bea trice Lillie, and married a director named Francis Gordon-Howley. During World War I, Gertrude, though both ill and pregnant, took over in Bea's place and stopped the show. In the midst of one of the heaviest Zeppelin raids of the war, she was rushed from the theater for the premature birth of her daughter, Pamela...
...that 3,000 whites monopolize almost all the fertile land in the cool "White Highlands," leaving the blacks to grub for a living in barren, low-lying "reserves." The Mau-Mau teaches that the white man's medicine (e.g., anti-rinderpest inoculation) kills instead of curing, and that pregnant black women are aborted in white hospitals...
...Calif, and milked. Her average daily production: 37 qts. In her time, purebred Hazel (out of Hazel Colantha Rag Apple de Kol by Pansco Sequoia Adventurer) has seen hand milking bow to the machine age, has had her milk pasteurized and homogenized, has had 13 calves and is again pregnant...
...vegetables, sets it on a terrace outside her house, where her husband comes to eat. Nights, she lures him to lie down in the fields, threatening to cut off the soup if he refuses. To keep the nagging at a minimum, most Kogi men try to keep their women pregnant...
...patients studied by Dr. Kroger were overweight, and he attributed their obesity and sterility to the same cause-a childlike desire to be taken care of. "We have often noted," said Dr. Kroger, "that these neurotic women state that they 'will do anything in the world to get pregnant,' yet when given diets and basal body temperature charts, they find many rationalizations for not dieting and keeping the monthly record." The last thing in the world that they really want, he contended, is weight reduction and the normal ovarian function which could make pregnancy possible...