Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hypothetical example: John was married (50); as he had hoped, his wife became pregnant (40), stopped working (26), and bore a son (39). John, who hated his work as a soap-company chemist, found a better-paying job (38) as a teacher (36) in a college outside the city. After a vacation (13) to celebrate, he moved his family to the country (20), returned to the hunting and fishing (19) he had loved as a child, and began seeing a lot of his congenial new colleagues (18). Everything was so much better that he was even able to give...
Pink Ribbon. The council points out that, even in this permissive age, some bizarre misconceptions about contraception persist. "One woman thought she'd avoid getting pregnant by jumping up and down after intercourse," the leaflet notes. "Others believe that they won't get pregnant if they stand up during intercourse." As a result, 120,000 unwanted babies are born each year in Britain; in 1969, one bride in five was pregnant at the time of her marriage. That point is amply illustrated in the leaflet by a picture showing a very pregnant young woman in a white wedding...
...contrast, says the pamphlet, Casanova "knew how to make love without making his women pregnant." His secret: a primitive form of "French letter," a century-old British slang term for condom. "Instead of being made out of synthetic rubber, as they are nowadays, it was made out of sheep's gut," explains the council. "To keep it in place, he tied it on with a tasteful pink ribbon...
...such attitudes, medicine is a practical career only for women with great determination-and understanding families. Dr. Edith Shapiro, now a psychiatrist at Manhattan's Beth Israel Medical Center, was forced to delay her entrance into medical school by a year when faculty members learned that she was pregnant. She avoided another delay only by concealing her second pregnancy, conveniently giving birth during a summer vacation and stoically returning to classes two weeks later. Dr. Nancy Hendrie, now of Concord, Mass., virtually abandoned her family to the costly care of a cook and a housekeeper in order to complete...
Then one terrifying night last February, Captain MacDonald awoke to a nightmare. As he tells it, three long-haired young men and a blonde girl invaded his home at Fort Bragg, N.C., while he was sleeping. They left his pregnant wife and two daughters stabbed and beaten to death. MacDonald himself was stabbed 19 times and clubbed on the head. Horrible as that was, it was only the beginning of his ordeal. Agents of the Army's Criminal Investigation Division (CID) soon concluded that the young doctor had made up the hippie story to cover his own guilt...