Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particularly ugly incident, some 20 armed men stormed the house of two stonecutters, Abdel Aziz Idris and his brother Hussein. Every window in their house, which they had built themselves, was broken. The Idris children and Abdel's pregnant wife were beaten before an Israeli army patrol arrived to rescue them. The Idrises do not know why they were targeted. "We enjoyed good neighborly relations," says Abdel Idris, "but after the murder of the Israeli youth, we were told again and again, 'If you won't leave your home, we shall beat you up.' " Counters Zeev...
Some 2 million pregnant women had taken DES (diethylstilbestrol) to help prevent miscarriage before the Food and Drug Administration alerted physicians to its dangers in 1971. Doctors suspected that the estrogen drug was causing vaginal and cervical cancer in daughters born to those women, and more recently have also implicated it in genital abnormalities and infertility in sons. Now there is more unsettling news for DES daughters. When they reach childbearing age, they appear to be more vulnerable than others to miscarriage-as well as to stillbirth, premature birth and ectopic pregnancy (in which the fetus grows outside the uterus...
...needs such direct reminders. At the time of the accident, Governor Richard Thornburgh recommended the precaution of evacuating pregnant women and pre-school age children from within five miles of the crippled plant, and thousands of people heeded his advice. "It was awful," said Mrs. Clare Wright, 30, who took her daughter Amy, then 3, to a refugee center set up in a hockey arena in nearby Hershey. Mrs. Wright carried along some clean clothes and a couple of blankets stuffed into a duffel bag, and left behind on the kitchen table a note to let her truckdriver husband know...
...that saccharin had not caused any of the current bladder tumors in patients. Because the sweetener has been in widespread use only since the 1960s, it could have still undiscovered long-range carcinogenic effects on the bladder and other organs. Thus, Hoover warns, "any use by nondiabetic children or pregnant women, heavy use by young women of child-bearing age and excessive use by anyone are ill-advised...
...meaning of the new political force soon becomes clear to Cliff as well. He insists that Sally leave Berlin immediately and return with him to the U.S. She balks, and after a nocturnal visit to the doctor, returns no longer pregnant, and without her fur coat. In an emotion-charged scene, Epes's performance comes alive, with the fear that Sally will refuse to leave with him--he cannot even let Sally utter the words...