Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...times over the past four years Guatemalan troops have crossed the border to kill and kidnap refugees. The most recent attack occurred last month, when some 200 Guatemalan soldiers attacked a camp at El Chupadero, four miles north of the border. According to the examining doctor, four men, a pregnant woman and a six-year-old child were tortured and killed...
...when the money began rolling in; royalties and subsidiary rights reaped from the movies and TV made him wealthy many times over. His personal life has not matched the success of his career. A first marriage lasted some 20 years and produced one son. When his secretary-mistress became pregnant, Simenon looked at the legal problems he might face and demanded a divorce. He married his assistant; they had three children before a vitriolic estrangement. In May 1978 his third child and only daughter, then 25, shot and killed herself in her Paris apartment...
...colt is the result of the first successful embryo transfer between two different equine species. A year ago, Veterinarian William R. Foster, who is assistant director of the Louisville Zoo, and Veterinarian Scott D. Bennett of Simpsonville, Ky., synchronized Kelly's reproductive cycle with that of a pregnant Grant's zebra residing at the zoo. Flushing out a ten-day-old embryo from the zebra's uterus with a sterile solution, the two vets implanted it in the womb of the quarter horse. Safely lodged, the embryo gestated for 366 days, slightly longer than the average term...
...those who have only encountered riddles in the guise of jokes," he notes defensively, "that this skittish footnote to the austere chronicles of our folk-culture heritage has itself an ancient and learned history." As proof, he ventures back to Babylonia to unearth an early example: "Who becomes pregnant without conceiving? Who becomes fat without eating?" Answer: Clouds. In ancient Greece, Oedipus solves the riddle of the Sphinx: "What is it that goes on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening?" Answer: Man. (First he appears as a crawling baby, then upright...
...curtain this week with Frank and Joyce (Daniel J. Travanti and Veronica Hamel) heading closer to a permanent split as she leaves for Paris; a character on St. Elsewhere with liver cancer will take a turn for the worse; and Officer Chris Cagney (Sharon Gless) will believe she is pregnant as Cagney & Lacey departs for its summer vacation. Dallas' season finale is still a deep secret, but hints are that the enemies of J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) may have something ominous in store for the dastardly oilman. Most spectacular of all will be the finish of Falcon Crest...