Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...downplay both the Sandinistas' repression and the threat to their neighbors. Part of this has to do with the whole Viet Nam syndrome, the press worrying about how "we're going to end up on the wrong side of history" or "we're going to get a little bit pregnant here." There has also been a little too much equanimity, a tendency to say, "So what? What difference does it make?" Well, what difference does it make who is in charge of little Cuba? It makes a hell of a lot of difference...
Webb, now 23, testified at last week's hearing that she had claimed she was raped because she feared she was pregnant after having sex with her boyfriend (she was not). To make her tale believable, she said, she had torn her clothes and inflicted the cuts and bruises. When her description of her assailant led to Dotson's arrest, she said, she stuck...
Crowell says that she panicked after having sex with a boyfriend. Fearing that she might be pregnant (she was not), she decided to avoid disgrace by claiming she had been raped. When her description of her imaginary assailant resulted in Dotson's arrest, she went through with the lie; a jury deliberated only 96 minutes before convicting him. But Crowell, now a wife and mother in New Hampshire, could not forget the sight of the innocent man weeping as he was taken away, and she finally told her minister about the hoax...
...days earlier, Long's costar and fellow Cheers waitress, Rhea Perlman, 36, also gave birth in New York City to a daughter, the second child for her and Actor Husband Danny DeVito, 40, star of TV's rerunning Taxi and films (Romancing the Stone). Perlman's character, Carla, became pregnant for this TV season, but Long's Diane, hidden by camera angles...
...Harvard theater gets the definite impression that relatively few people want to put on a comedy. Sure, there are occasional Shakespeare or Wilde pieces, but very rarely is there a comedy that one can regard as real relaxation therapy. Mostly, the theatergoer gets a strong dose of serious drama pregnant with a serious message. During the midterm season, such an overdose of gravity could be dangerous to your health, or at least to your stomach. Not to worry, however. Into this season of dramatic doldrums comes The Good Doctor, and any strong message he might have is given with...