Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year, pregnant again, Lorraine went to Chicago's Presbyterian Hospital for a thorough check. The doctors found high blood pressure above her heart, low blood pressure below it. This, with a murmur heard over Lorraine's heart and other signs of abnormal circulation, indicated that she had suffered since birth from a coarctation (narrowing) of the aorta. The operation to correct this condition is drastic and dangerous; furthermore, there was no record of its having been done on a woman three months pregnant. But the doctors felt that the risk had to be taken...
Perhaps the only genuinely new car, and certainly the most interesting, came from the small independent Willys-Overland. Combining an efficient new F-head engine, excellent vision, ample driver room, and an overall length of fifteen feet, the new Willys is a refreshing change from the prevailing "pregnant hippopotamus school of car design. Regrettably though, the Willys is a medium rather than a low-priced...
Pamela, 9, asked her pregnant mother: "Who put the baby under your heart?" Linda, 6, was puzzled because "men have hair on their chests but women don't." Vicky, 5, instead of praising the toothpowder of a new sponsor, Amion, announced: "I don't want that stuff. I want Colgate's." And Sandra, 11, asked her father what "S.O.B." meant...
...James Joyce? Finn's taste of love is more bitter. He worships Shoon Lawlee, a gingery colleen with almond-shaped eyes. She spurns him, and flounces off to the big world, only to come home pregnant and die. Finn buries the sting of it in underground work for a united Ireland. In the end he is hanged, and Ches gets his princely belt, only to see Cloone razed by fire...
...husband said she was three months' pregnant, that she had gone into similar "trances" three times since last August. "I always could bring her out of it with icepacks on the back of her neck," he said. No, he said, he hadn't noticed any peculiar changes in her manner. Yes, their marriage was going well as far as he knew...