Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Highlights of History. Two recent pictures, little highlights of history, illustrate Koestler's meaning. One shows Communist boss Jacques Duclos (see cut) bouncing out of his first conference with new Premier Leon Blum. Duclos is unmistakably the master, a rotund figure of smug and pregnant power. The other picture shows France's new Socialist Cabinet. On the eve of taking office, they are just as unmistakably the defeated-pathetic shadows, human ciphers called to the semblance of power, but denied even the illusion of political effectiveness. For, says Koestler, "the French Socialists have lost both their courage...
...rate for converting their schillings into rubles. The diplomats had to wash their own socks and underwear. Never sure where their next meal was coming from, they scurried from one hotel to another as bills came due. On top of it all the secretary turned out to have been pregnant when she left Vienna; after she went back home, the Minister and Counselor even had to type their own letters...
Help from the Husband. Best time of life for a marginal Indian is adolescence, when responsibilities are at a minimum and chastity unusual. But soon come marriage and pregnancy. A common ceremony is the "couvade": the pregnant woman ignores her condition as best she can, while the husband secludes himself, sticks to a careful diet. At last the woman creeps into the bush, delivers her baby secretly. The husband screams in pain...
Illustrating her point, the budgeteer recalled the difficulties of one pregnant young wife. hard pressed to meet hospital expenses from the $400 she had saved. She found, married life boro "no sacrifices." "We enjoy, if foe much...
...easy. Leaders of Cochin China's neighbor, obstreperous, independent Viet Nam (new state formed of Annam and Tonkin), urged Thinh's countrymen to throw off Western control, called Thinh a quisling and threatened him with torture. Gentle Dr. Thinh was revolted by stories of extremists disemboweling pregnant women and burying Europeans alive...