Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...figured that his wife's $11,000-a-year job as a magazine editor would qualify them for the loan. Leon Graybill of the Floyd E. Davis Mortgage Corp. agreed, but how, he wanted to know, could he feel confident that Carol Lewicke would not get pregnant, leave her job and default on the payments...
...couple was practicing birth control - known in the field as a "baby letter" or "Pill letter." But Mrs. Lewicke figured that he wanted even more. She wrote a letter saying that she did not want to have any chil dren, that she would have an abortion if she got pregnant, and that her hus band would have a vasectomy if the loan company so wished. Once the loan was secured, she set about to rid the mortgage business of the common demand for baby letters. Independently, three national women's groups have taken up the cause and have filed...
THERE IS MORE FOR US than the choice between being barefoot and pregnant and being bare-knuckled and sharp-clawed. And there is far more in us than the stories of women who don't see each other before science exams suggest. I don't expect it will be pleasant to discover that each of us has inculcated the stereotyped career woman's mode. It seems impossible for us to imagine that we would allow that to happen to ourselves; already we cringe at the mention of the term "Radcliffe bitch." But we are not really tring to dissolve...
...answers struggled out with as much difficulty as the question, and only when individuals began to relate their personal experiences of a group supportiveness and closeness, did any pattern emerge. Mothers with children and all living without men, worked and shared the fruits of that work. Those non-pregnant, or for whatever reason unemployed, kept their children and those of the working mothers. And sisters talked of food...
...first tries to ship Skouras off to Chicago with a bribe of fifteen thousand dollars. When this fails he magnanimously offers to take back his wife after her two week, "maybe three week," little jaunt of a romance. The play reaches a climax of insipidity when Fabray, nine months pregnant by her lover, and Channing, nine months pregnant by her husband, punctuate a conversation about men and childbirth with the long groans of labor pains. In the middle of this scene Albert runs in holding a shot gun, and we learn that he has taken to violence and shot Skouras...