Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tennis books now in print. (Sample title: How to Increase Your Net Value). Alluring fashion ads offer raiment ranging from the new see-through tennis dresses to maternity clothes for tennis-playing moms-to-be?along with some advice from doctors on why it is safe to play while pregnant. Also available are cute court togs for the baby ("the little lobber"). Tennis, in short, has become a billon-dollar-a-year business...
...right at his female opponent. Of bad tennis, bad sportsmanship and, above all, a bad mouth. Women who attend Gallwey's classes have no trouble recognizing the angry voice of Self 1: it is their husband. They are poor Self 2. Such descriptive phrases as "cow," "fat banana" and "pregnant elephant" can be heard on the most elegant courts. "Move your ass" appears to be a not infrequent admonition?not to mention a stream of not so sotto voce expletives, four-letter words and hectoring commands: "Run! Run!" "Hit the ball. Hit the ball!" "Up! Up!" and, maddeningly above...
...setting is a government health spa in an unnamed Eastern European socialist country. The spa caters to women who have fertility problems. A young nurse named Ruzena has no such difficulties. Only one time in bed with a famous touring trumpeter named Klima is enough to leave her pregnant. Klima has all but forgotten Ruzena when she calls some months later with the news. He returns to the fertility spa to try to convince her that she should have an abortion...
...plant, and authorities have ordered blood tests on some 15,000 people in the area. Officials are also taking some controversial steps to confine the effects of the accident to those already afflicted. Doctors are urging women who might have been exposed to the TCDD not to become pregnant for at least three months, and they are making birth control services available. The government has gone even further. Despite grumblings from the Vatican, it has authorized abortions, under normal circumstances illegal in Italy, for all women whose unborn babies might be malformed...
...dark hours before dawn, while his pregnant wife Crystal lies asleep, Warren Zevon struggles to compose a symphony in his backyard studio in North Hollywood. It is an ambitious undertaking for a man who by day is a successful rock songwriter. "When I was 13, I got an autograph from Igor Stravinsky," Zevon recalls. That inspired him to start teaching himself harmony and counterpoint and even to bring a few fledgling compositions to the master's home for his inspection. "When puberty hit, I turned to rock," Zevon goes on. "I could see that when the average attention span...