Word: pregnant
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...cost only pennies to manufacture; the cost of insertion is no more than a doctor chooses to charge, which may be nothing at a health station in India or the fee for an office visit and examination in the U.S. A woman who wants another child can usually become pregnant within a cou ple of months after the IUCD'S removal. Most important, IUCDS can be left in place for months or years without thought or attention...
Still No Clue. The biggest immediate difficulty with IUCDS is that one woman out of ten expels hers-usually within two months. And she may not notice that she has lost it until she becomes pregnant. It is to guard against unsuspected loss of the devices that many of them carry a plastic tail. A woman can then easily examine herself to make sure that the device is in place. Only a few women have intermittent bleeding difficulties that prompt their doctors to remove the devices...
There is no doubt about IUCDS' relatively high effectiveness. If 100 wives use no contraceptives, 90 will become pregnant in a year; with the rhythm method, 40 will, and with diaphragm or condoms, from two to 20. Among 100 women who can retain IUCDS, there is, on the average, only one pregnancy a year. That is as near perfection as the protection from the pills...
...established Southern families in the first third of this century. The events are simple enough, though the stream-of-consciousness telling makes them often difficult to follow. Of the four children in the aristocratic Compson family, the boy Benjy is an idiot, the girl Caddy gets pregnant, marries the wrong man, and goes away, the boy Quentin commits suicide in an inflexible rejection of his sister's dishonor, and the boy Jason grows into a man constantly lashing himself with hate, frustration and repressed violence...
Having established the innocence of his angel (Stefania Sandrelli), Germi first thrusts her into an earthy peasant farce. One midday siesta she is seduced and becomes pregnant. Her father, played with inexhaustible bravura by Saro Urzi, consults a lawyer cousin, explaining that the doctor has brought up a little problem about Agnese. "Tumor?" asks the cousin. "Honor," growls Don Vincenzo. He sends his only son Antonio to murder the seducer, assured that the boy's punishment will be no more than three to seven years in prison, provided he can prove that he killed "in a blind rage...