Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mother from the lioness' mating, at the beginning of September 1959, through the birth of three cubs 108 days later. The Adamsons established a camp in the game reserve where Elsa had been turned loose, and kept a herd of goats to be doled out when the pregnant lioness could not hunt for herself (Joy Adamson is sentimental about all kinds of animals, but she is a realist, and pet lions do not eat canned cat food). Elsa's life in the bush did not affect her extraordinary trust of Mrs. Adamson; the author tells, for instance...
...Hingle), the all-American marketype of the guy with the big business and the teentsy soul, reaches down to the bottom of his heart and comes up with a moldy collection of pragmaterialistic cliches: "Son, don't you go too far with that girl. If she gets pregnant, you'll have to marry her and then you couldn't go to Yale. What you need-heh, heh-is another kind of girl on the side...
...about her the luminous common sense and the clear eye for life that mark all the memorable Salinger girls of whatever age, from Phoebe Caulfield on. Eventually Franny faints. When the story first appeared, coed readers, earthy creatures all, ignored Salinger's mysticism and decided that she was pregnant. (So did their mothers, who telephoned by the dozens to say not on any account to go to Dartmouth the next weekend.) But Franny is not pregnant. When she comes back to consciousness, she stares at the ceiling, then begins to move her lips soundlessly over and over again...
...scarcely hide his embarrassed and expectant smile. "Look," he said, "you probably don't have what I want, but make it up especially for me. My wife and I have been trying to have a baby for ten years now, and she just told me she's pregnant. I want to get her a trophy-she deserves it." It was no trouble at all. Bruce Robbins, owner of a four-store chain called Trophies, Inc., fixed the customer up with a sedate plaque attesting that the man and his wife were proven "producers...
...July bore a son she named Adam Matthew Sahl, the 34-year-old comedian equably announced, "I'm not admitting or denying anything. Let the court decide." Responded Miss Manley, reminiscing about the European tour she says she made with Sahl last fall: "Then I got pregnant. Mort doesn't feel those are the right circumstances for marriage...