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Word: pregnant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...EXCELLENT PERFORMANCES by Kowalski and Hufstader, pregnant patient and principled physician run through the standard arguments for and against abortion. This time, however, the sex roles are reversed: Man is the desperate, powerless victim, and woman the smug, powerful perpetrator. To his cry that he has the right to pursue a career he's worked hard to establish, the feminist surgeon ironically answers that the unborn also have rights and that even one transgression of these rights would set an evil precedent. When he says he'd like to kill her, she replies that often "the impregnated wants to kill...

Author: By Joan Feigenbaum, | Title: "A Woman's Work..." | 4/8/1978 | See Source »

...London fog. "I'd say to him, 'Is 'e coming?' " Marilu laughs. "And John would look over his shoulder and say, 'No, I don't think so.' " Another acquaintance, trying to summon an example of the Travolta wit, could recall only his remark to the husband of a very pregnant wife: "Boy, you must have a high sperm count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Steppin' to stardom | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

Ivinskaya paid cruelly for her 14-year association with Pasternak. In 1949, after refusing to falsely denounce her lover as a British spy, she was imprisoned for five years. Singularly diabolical torture was inflicted on Ivinskaya, who was pregnant by Pasternak at the time. At one point she was led through interminable prison corridors on the promise of a visit from Pasternak. Instead, she was thrown into the morgue. After she came to among the cadavers, she miscarried. Following Pasternak's death, she was again arrested. This time her tormentors tried to extract a confession that she had written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Other Lara | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

Lamby blasted home two consecutive tallies from his left point spot, only 31 seconds apart, to make it 6-1 after only 2:22 of the third. LeBlond then closed the pregnant scorebook with a slapshot tally from the right...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Icemen Crawl, Brawl in Beanpot Loss | 3/2/1978 | See Source »

Well, Haldeman explains that Nixon needed Kissinger because "dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant. Everything's done on a very high level, there's a lot of commotion, and it takes 22 months for anything to happen...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: "I've Finally Figured Out Haldeman's Secret... He Keeps An Inflatable Woman In His Briefcase." | 3/2/1978 | See Source »

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