Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...illnesses. I go to UHS when I think I have a sore throat, the flu, or an infection under a toenail of my left foot. According to the enlightened standards of UHS, none of the above is a particularly accurate assessment of my bodily ailments. Instead, I am pregnant, about to become pregnant, confused about my sexuality, or too timid to ask for contraception...
...months before the Watergate break-in to enlist his help in bringing down Nixon. Cronkite failed to ask their names; indeed, the questioning was rather gentle. When Cronkite did ask pointedly if Vesco had ever personally discussed his gift or SEC problems with the President, Vesco allowed a pregnant pause and then feigned deafness...
...lady's mumbling made me iware of her presence again ... The sun was making me drowsy, and I lapsed into the comfort of the past, telling the vieja for the hundredth time about my love, my life, my Frankie ... By some miracle I got pregnant that nite, and since I was only 14, his p.o. [parole officer] made him marry me. The other choice was to go back to Tracy. But he loves me! I know it, because I love him. He ain't around that broad no more! At the back of my eyes, the old, familiar...
...name it," Gilbert says. "Everything from pregnant girl friends, failing grades, deep disappointment in not playing either regularly or well, problems with their parents, uncertainty about their futures." Father-like he also nags his charges about their grades, and last year helped to arrange the wedding of Walton's back-up center, Swen Nater. The wedding was in conservative Orange County, and Gilbert suggested that Keith Wilkes' father, a Baptist minister, perform the ceremony. "We all loved the idea of blowing some minds in Orange County by having a black clergyman officiate at the marriage of a white...
...Cleveland Junior High School Teacher Jo Carol LaFleur was pregnant and due to give birth in late July. She wanted to finish out the school year, but school board officials forced her to begin an unpaid maternity leave in March because of a standing rule that pregnant women must leave work five months before the baby is due. Such rules are vestiges of a time when skittish school boards were determined to keep visibly pregnant teachers out of the sight of schoolchildren. Now the boards contend that the rules are necessary to protect the health of mother and child...