Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...siblings-or their mothers-cut down the rival candidates neatly. As soon as he was named sultan in 1595, for example, Mohammed III murdered 19 half brothers and, to be certain of obliterating all possible competition, also killed seven of his father's concubines who happened to be pregnant at the moment. This was extreme even by Topkapi ground rules...
...book contains only one reference to Galbraith by name, but it is a pregnant one. After the "prominent Harvard economist and wit" has made a cogent point to President Kennedy "in his amusingly ironic way" and then apologized for a gloomy prediction, Kennedy replies: "John, you can't scold us often enough, and as far as I'm concerned, you are both an Aristotle and a Jeremiah, a polymath and a prophet...
...look for a job," said Dusek. "You even have to ask for toilet paper." But she also found that a warming "kind of sisterhood" existed among the other boarders. "A woman with six kids gave me some clothes. Others told me how to get welfare if I were pregnant. They are not at all the stereotype of the welfare mother. They are good mothers...
...chanted, "Oh we hate the British soldiers, yes we do, yes we do," lifting the hats of British sentries as they marched past. The demonstration was organized by Bernadette Devlin, who as a representative from Mid-Ulster is the youngest Member of Parliament at Westminster. Bernadette, 23, was too pregnant (by a man she has refused to name) to march, so she rode in a loudspeaker car. Her political stock has clearly been lifted by the crisis and by her return to the barricades. As one priest joked, "If she were the hoor of Babylon, we'd elect...
...girl, attended Hunter College and Columbia law school, where she was an editor of the Law Review. Before it was fashionable, she was a strong civil rights advocate who once defended a black man in Mississippi accused of raping a white woman. She was seven months' pregnant then and slept in a Jackson bus station one night sitting upright on a bench, being wisely gingerly about night riders. Her two daughters are now in college, and she lives in a somewhat grand $650-a-month Greenwich Village duplex with her husband, Martin Abzug, a soft-spoken stockbroker and sometime...