Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former basketball center at Marquette University, and she routinely laid out his suit, socks and underwear in the morning. But barely two years after they were married, she testified, her husband struck her on the side of the head, rupturing an eardrum. Mrs. Fedders recounted that when she was pregnant with her first son, Fedders attacked her with his fists, pummeling her in the abdomen. Said she: "I remember he was yelling he didn't care if he killed me or killed the baby." Another time, she recalled, he grabbed her by the hair and tried to heave her over...
...reunite Jack and Kitty, once the Astaire and Rogers of their set. In keeping with the deflected dreams of the rest of the crowd, Kitty has been married three times and has become a prematurely old, discreetly tipsy Florida matriarch. Jack, who wed the girl he made pregnant in Georgetown days, is the boyishly charming and faintly untrustworthy Lieutenant Governor of Indiana. After much mischance, Jack and Kitty do return to Buffalo, the Snow Ball and each other's arms. The climax is, predictably, anticlimax, a sad proof that the old Wasp world is beyond recapture...
...fallopian tubes, which become inflamed and eventually scarred. While the infection in some cases causes severe lower abdominal pain, thus sending a clear danger signal, the symptoms in other women are barely noticeable. Many of these women remain unaware of their infection. Only after trying unsuccessfully to become pregnant do they discover that their fallopian tubes have been blocked by scar tissue...
...occurs to Nat not to tell his fiancee about Lee Ann's presence; Caroline and her parents in turn have no interest in censuring him or his presumptive faithlessness. The problem is that the wedding will remain in jeopardy until the woman can be found; having her turn up pregnant or dead after the ceremony would create insufferable scandal. By the time the search for Lee Ann ends, Nat has learned much about areas of life from which his class has conspired to shield him. And with no visible effort, Taylor has spun out a marvelously intricate and fragile...
...pastoral shepherd to Boston's two million Catholics, the 52-year-old Law has quickly pushed himself into the political spotlight, declaring during the presidential campaign that abortion is the preeminent issue for all Catholics and last month pledging expense-free health care to the Hub's pregnant women as a deterrent to abortion...