Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the Navy repair ship U.S.S. Vulcan set sail on a six-month Mediterranean cruise some weeks ago, it had to leave ten crew members behind in Norfolk. Reason: they were pregnant. Rejiggering assignments because of pregnancy is a fact of life these days in the armed forces. Indeed, the pregnant soldier or sailor is becoming as common as the beer-bellied sergeant. At any given time, about 12% of the 130,000 U.S. military women are with child. While some oldtimers grumble that the armed forces are turning into a giant maternity ward, officers are struggling manfully to accommodate...
Standard operating procedure in all branches of the service is to keep pregnant women at their jobs as long as possible. Then they are transferred to light duty or put on sick leave. In practice, different commanders make different decisions. An Army colonel, just back from Korea, said pregnant soldiers "were making the forced marches with all their equipment." Yet some officers try to get such women out of the way early. Says Rear Admiral James R. Hogg, of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations: "The bottom line is, we'll get her transferred before she becomes...
...child care is a problem, trying to do two jobs at once. When it comes time to get going, they can't do it on time." Another complaint: pregnancy irritates military men while bringing out their tenderness. Says one Army commander: "The guys will take care of a pregnant soldier-and at the same time resent...
...definition of consideration is going through minor inconvenience to the disproportionate relief or aid of someone else. A considerate able-bodied man or woman will give up his or her seat in a public bus to a pregnant woman because she can make better use of it. A considerate person will hold open the door for another whose arms are full, because it is an easy thing to do--much easier in terms of total convenience than forcing the carrier to drop his load, open the door by himself, pick up his load and proceed. A considerate student will...
...Breathless after her amateurish performance in Saint Joan made her name a synonym for miscasting in the U.S. The report was picked up by Newsweek, a French publication, Minute, and American Weekly, a former Hearst newspaper supplement. Soon after reading the account, Seberg, who by then was seven months pregnant, went into labor and three days later gave birth to a dead baby, a white female...