Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some statistics on pregnancy are baffling. The abortion rate has jumped 264% in two years, but illegitimate births are still rising, up 44% in ten years. At the same time, slightly more than half of all British women are pregnant when they are married-which is the same percentage as 20 years...
...regard her as an oracle where eating is concerned. Even a few doctors who disagree with her opinion on the need for vitamins and other dietary supplements subscribe to some of her dietary dogmas. A number of nutritionists, for instance, are as critical as she of obstetricians who force pregnant women to control their weight stringently. That kind of dieting is frequently carried to extremes unhealthy for both the fetus and the mother...
Lasting Trauma. Shortly after they met, Liv became pregnant. "I let it happen," she says. "I wasn't afraid. I felt it was very right." The baby, a girl whom they named Linn, was born during the filming of Hour of the Wolf. Liv, who is enough of a cold-blooded professional to watch herself constantly through a sort of invisible mirror, noted her cries and groans for future reference when she next would play a woman in labor...
...Michele Chevalier, a $300-a-month subway worker in Paris, was deserted 15 years ago and left with three young girls to raise. When her unmarried 16-year-old daughter Marie-Claire became pregnant, Mme. Chevalier resolved that an abortion was essential. Neither she nor her own mother had been married, said Mme. Chevalier, and she had no desire to force Marie-Claire "to relive my martyrdom...
...pregnant young widow (Patty Duke) spends three days riding buses from Los Angeles to Minnesota to visit her mother-in-law, whom she has never met. Patty's husband, before his death in a military-plane crash, had assured her she would like his mother, but the hard, hostile woman (Rosemary Murphy) she finally meets bears little resemblance to his fond descriptions. Patty's only friend at the forbidding family estate is her husband's half-witted sister (Sian Barbara Allen), who babbles incomprehensibly while pressing a newspaper clipping into Patty's palm. Apparently a homicidal...