Word: pregnant
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...Carolina's lax family courts. As an example of adoptive parents' vulnerability to fraud, she cites the case of two women from Summerville who are currently serving time for at tempting to sell the same baby to two different couples. The unfettered system can also induce young pregnant women, who are offered payments that may far exceed their medical costs, to surrender their maternal rights too readily. Eager parents are willing to pay $15,000 or more to lawyers, "finders" and young mothers. Promises one ad: LIVE LIKE A QUEEN. Says Attorney Kathleen Jennings of the Greenville solicitor...
...sabotages the whole plant, and chuckles smugly at his dismissal. A go at car theft proves him equally "temperamentally unsuited" for that profession. So, he resigns himself to a life of surferdom. To prove he is not a mere child, Benson decides to marry an ex-girlfriend who is pregnant with someone else's child...
According to one count, Diana, Princess of Wales, attended 76 public functions last year, including the opening of six hospitals and a marmalade factory. This year may prove considerably more momentous: the princess, 22, is pregnant again. The first Britons to cash in on the news were the bookmakers, who offered odds of 10 to 11 on a girl, even money on a boy and 50 to 1 against twins. In their first public appearance after the Buckingham Palace announcement, Diana joined Prince Charles in a visit to a Jaguar factory. Said Charles to an assembly-line worker: "Your production...
...whom Arnie suspects (rightly) of seeking his island as a conduit for foreign narcotics. Matteo is both more and less than a customer, however. To a reformer like Arnie he is an irresistible candidate for moral redemption, and the way to reach him appears to be through his castoff, pregnant girlfriend, who has taken refuge under Arnie's mostly paternal wing. Arnie cannot keep faith with the past without summoning up its burdens. These arrive one day in the form of a familiar family hunting for a dream house along the gulf: Lex Graham, the ambitious colleague who undermined...
Once the bourgeoisie had decided not to talk about what it did, it created a new symbolic language, both verbal and nonverbal, to convey information. Middle-class women no longer got pregnant, for example; they became enceinte, or were "in an interesting condition." Painters and sculptors thrilled staid merchants with luscious nudes fig-leafed with titles like Venus Now Wakes. Manet's Olympia shocked the salon of 1865 not because she was naked but because she looked back at the viewer with the defiant eyes of a thoroughly contemporary Parisian courtesan. On second thought, said Freud...