Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like many of her students, Mrs. Laurini used to while away fall Sunday afternoons reading, because her husband, a high school teacher, glued himself to the tube from noon to nightfall. Eventually she started watching the games herself. "We got our first color television set when I was pregnant," she recalls. "I can't say whether it was the TV or the pregnancy, but I started to crave football games...
...upright WASP of the old school who is about to be posted to Berlin as the new U.S. naval attaché. The book ends a few days after Pearl Harbor. By that time Henry has served Franklin Roosevelt as a special observer in Germany, Britain and Russia, acquired a pregnant Jewish daughter-in-law who is still trying to escape from Nazi Europe, refused to give his foolish, flighty wife a divorce, and seen his first battleship command, the U.S.S. California, blasted by Japanese torpedoes before he can even go aboard...
...congregation, he finds that Washington, unlike New York, is not so overloaded with things to do "that you just give up on everything." He hopes to finish the sequel to The Winds of War within three years, but will say little more about it than that. Readers, remembering that pregnant Jewish daughter-in-law about to escape to Israel, may reasonably hope for at least a taste of Jaffa oranges...
...probability of conception from a single act of unprotected coitus is between one in 25 and one in 50; thus at least 20 pregnancies should have occurred among Dr. Kuchera's 1,000 patients. But not one became pregnant. Nor did any suffer serious side effects from the drug, though some experienced nausea and intermittent vomiting for a few days...
Unitarian Solution. The last story, Eli, the Fanatic, borders on mysticism. Its chief characters are a lawyer in a Brooks Brothers suit (Michael Tolan), his very pregnant wife (Rose Arrick), a Talmudic scholar (Lou Jacob!) and the scholar's helper (David Ackroyd). The assistant is a bearded D.P. who survived a concentration camp with only the ghetto garb of a black suit, small prayer shawl and broad-brimmed...