Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miasma of Harvard athletic history. End-zone Crone, a man fading, pumping, scrambling with an effortless inviolability, zeroing in like a computerized homing pigeon, tightening and tightening the frantic gyre until he could settle to his knees on that corner of the Endzone,clutching a football with a pregnant, held sigh, heaving that sigh, and mumbling, "Here, at least, is a spot that will be forever Crone." Maintaining his hold on that inconsequential little square of Harvard soil, clutching it tenaciously in the continuum of his mind as though it, too, will never die and fade into the memories...
While Jews assailed Superstar, Roman Catholics were mounting an intensive-and remarkably successful -campaign against Maude. At issue were two rerun episodes of the CBS television series that sympathetically portray Maude's decision to have an abortion when she finds herself unexpectedly pregnant. First aired last fall, the shows were attacked by the Roman Catholic press and hierarchy at the time, but with neither the force nor the effectiveness of the current campaign...
...message by walkie-talkie. As the Bouchikis got off the bus, a car approached. Out jumped a pair of men armed with silencer-equipped .22-cal. pistols. "No!" shouted Bouchiki. Without uttering a word, each gunman fired six shots. The Arab died before an ambulance arrived. His seven-month-pregnant wife collapsed in shock on the street...
...which experiments - including the temporary maintenance of life by means of an artificial placenta - could be conducted on them. Some research physicians feel that such experiments could give them valuable in formation on the causes of miscarriage as well as the effects on the fetus of drugs taken by pregnant women. Others believe that the opportunity to study live fetal tissue, which grows rapidly, might help them to understand better the uncontrolled multiplication of cancer cells...
...relegating women to the second-class citizenship Gaddafi has forced on Libyan women. "Because of biological defects, a woman's place is in the home," intoned Gaddafi. "These are not defects, Mr. President!" came the outraged reply. "All right, then," responded Gaddafi, "nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps." That sexist sentiment hardly endeared him to the women. To make matters worse, a number of Libyan women whom Gaddafi had flown in to reassure their Egyptian sisters about the joys of subservience instead pleaded with the Egyptians to help them change their status...