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Word: pregnant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will accept any old pay and have reduced him to writing for the Radio Times. A young woman (Jacqueline Pearce) with a manuscript in tow strips to the waist, brazenly daring Simon to ravish and, of course, publish her. Finally, his parched-for-love wife announces that she is pregnant, possibly by a man whom Simon despises. The subtlest alteration in Michael Gambon's marvelously controlled performance suggests that Parsifal will never sound the same again. No moat of detachment can guard the vulnerable castle of the heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Curtains Up in London | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...Viet Nam, October and Angolan wars, M.S.F. offered help to all; the doctors themselves have so far sustained no casualties. They are also unfazed by the unexpected; after Nicaragua's 1972 quake, they found that their first duty was obstetrical: the tremors had induced premature labor in countless pregnant women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: M*A*S*H International | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...bloated pregnant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horse Feathers | 3/23/1976 | See Source »

...teenager she got pregnant back home in Pitman and gave the child up for adoption...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horse Feathers | 3/23/1976 | See Source »

...York Times clippings, to a threatening letter Alan writes President Kennedy. The feeling emerges from it all that Sokolov is playing myriad obscure jokes throughout, that some second satiric meaning lurks behind everything. Is the Xixi language full of esoteric puns? Why are the words for flirt and pregnant almost exactly the same? Is there any meaning at all to the patently nonsensical Xixi legends? Is the Xixi village--divided east-west by a river, north-south by an imaginary line--supposed to be an allegorical version of the United States? What exactly does Sokolov mean by ending with...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: Clever to a Fault | 3/19/1976 | See Source »

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