Word: pregnantly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...feet) produced a single child which lived more than a fortnight. The high Andes had no self-perpetuating white population until Spaniards born at intermediate altitudes moved up the slopes. Americans living at high mining camps today send their wives down to sea level as soon as they become pregnant...
Sorry, It's a Girl. Eton was in no mood to change. For generations, Old Etonians have registered their sons at Eton the day they are born. (Some prospective fathers wire practically the minute their wives become pregnant, sometimes have to wire again: "Sorry, it's a girl.") Eton is booked solid...
...slow-paced British cast (headed by Leslie Banks and Sophie Stewart), who "struggle hard not to give the impression that they are foundering in mid-Atlantic." Perhaps the Daily Express meant to be kinder: "A piece that you [should] . . . see whenever something in the news makes you ponder that pregnant question: The Americans, are they human...
...look to the brown-paneled wall where, painted 30 feet tall, is Ceres again. This Ceres is a powerful, morose woman. Her breasts are full, her waist is thick and muscled, her hips wide and powerful. Her strong legs are firmly planted in pregnant wheat. Her bored, detached attitude bothers some of the men. But usually the red-faced, screaming, frantic little men with thinning white hair and worried brows are too preoccupied to look at the fertile, sullen woman. They jump around, dash up & down the seven steps of the pit, wave their arms, yell as loud...
...hear the solemn reading of the budget by big (6 ft. 3 in.) Hugh Dalton. Hearty Hugh Dalton had played to the hilt a role in another solemn custom of Budget Week. By British tradition a Chancellor of the Exchequer about to produce a budget is treated like a pregnant woman. He relaxes in the peaceful countryside, awaiting the great moment. The press lavishes solicitude, photographs him smiling bravely through his ordeal. Editorialists who have lambasted him unmercifully for months before the Great Event (and will flay him even more heartily after it) permit him this week of peaceful gestation...