Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were a few other merciful concessions to the hostages on the train. After 13 days, the terrorists released two pregnant women, ages 25 and 31. Three days later they wheeled out a 46-year-old sailor suffering from chest pains; he was rushed to Groningen University's intensive care unit...
Despite the protection offered a fetus by the so-called placental barrier, there is growing evidence that certain activities of a pregnant woman-smoking cigarettes, taking drugs, pursuing extreme diets-can seriously affect its wellbeing. Last week the Federal Government singled out a special danger. Citing evidence that "fetal alcohol syndrome" may be more widespread than had been supposed, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism warned pregnant women that consuming more than three ounces of pure alcohol-or perhaps as little as one ounce (two drinks)-a day could increase the risk of their giving birth...
WHERE THE MUSICAL DIVERGES from Shakespeare, the difference seems less like a change than a clever exploitation of submerged meaning in the original. In the adapted version, Proteus doesn't merely leave Julia's affection in the lurch, he leaves her pregnant, too. A vehement argument sung in four-part disharmony ensues on the desirability and proper emotional upbringing of illegitimate children. While Shakespeare doesn't wrangle over issues as pragmatic as pregnancy in this play, you wonder if he didn't have more on his mind than Julia's male disguise when he put these words in her mouth...
When a team of Massachusetts General Hospital physicians discovered evidence of a link between a certain type of vaginal cancer and a synthetic estrogen widely taken by pregnant women over two decades, it was obvious that medicine had created a hormonal time bomb. The cancer showed up not in the women who had used diethylstilbestrol, or DES, but in their daughters-some 15 or 20 years after birth. Their sons are apparently not threatened by cancer, but there are indications that in some cases they may also be affected-by genital deformities or sterility. By 1971, when the federal Food...
Still another couple inhabits the yard, finally: two young adults on the verge of making decisions that will determine the course of their lives. As Ephraim, a young man who leaves Trinidad in frustration, Roland Smart communicates that anger forcing him to abandon his pregnant lover is justified. But as his lover, Karen Ford presents the other side of the same suffocating reality. He may be free to leave; she is trapped, forced to give in, obliged to abandon her dreams of self-respect and upward mobility...