Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outside the Soviet embassy in London, Hayley Mills joined in a demonstration for the liberation of Lyudmilla Prussakova, pregnant Russian Jewish woman who has been arrested several times since she and her husband tried to emigrate to Israel. Said Hayley, 26, now wife of Producer-Director Roy Boulting: "I am doing this for humanitarian, not political reasons. I am expecting a child in January, and I can understand the feelings of any woman who is in the same position...
...humane inconsistencies. When a worker obeys a "Think" sign, he is dismissed for woolgathering. An executive boasts of an affair he was strong enough to resist. But after his wife's resulting diatribe, he is furtively making plans for consummation. A youth fears that his girl friend is pregnant. Nightmares of a shotgun wedding haunt him for weeks-until she assures him, "Everything is all right." "I was free-free! I turned, seized her in my arms and, in an ecstasy of gratitude, asked her to marry...
...abortion laws, and Senator McGovern is somewhat less than an advocate. Whom, then, should a committed feminist support? When challenged at a women's caucus in Manhattan for backing McGovern, Committed Feminist Gloria Steinem drew laughter and applause by answering: "If McGovern were a woman and he got pregnant, he would make an honest decision whether or not to have an abortion. If Nixon got pregnant, he'd have an abortion but he'd go around afterward telling everybody that he was still a virgin...
...other memorable story, When Everybody Was Pregnant, celebrates the '50s - Updike's time. A stockbroker on a commuting train muses (in the way a stockbroker would if he were John Updike) about the distant, incredible time of young parenthood. "Did the '50s exist?" he wonders. "Voluptuous wall paper. Crazy kids. Sickening sensations of love. The trains slide forward. The decades slide seaward, taking us along...
...borrowed from an emery board. "I have leprosy." Her chief concern in life is finding some place to play doctor with Junior Phillips, her six-year-old boy friend. Like other little girls, Edith Ann dresses up-but she puts a doll under her dress so that she looks pregnant...