Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modern medical science has found no easy cure for failure to conceive. But on the basis of their experience, Cleveland's specialists expect that within a year one-third of the wives now attending the Fertility Clinic will be pregnant...
...reasons still unknown, pregnant women are especially resistant to the scourge of polio...
Abortion goes swimmingly for 20 years-until one of Mrs. Timson's own beloved daughters announces that she is illegitimately pregnant. In Mrs. Timson "rage . . . fluttered wildly, like a bluebottle fly." She reflects: "God is punishing me. But why? I've done no wrong. . . . We'd got to live." When her weeping daughter says she thinks abortion would be the best way out, Mrs. Timson will not hear of it. "Perhaps it will be a boy," she cries ecstatically...
...stood firm by day, danced the night through with his witch. When the Pope cursed him "with bell, book and candle," and at last excommunicated him, Henry replied that "if the Pope issued ten thousand excommunications, he would not care a straw." Henry exulted because his new Queen was pregnant, and the best necromancers, astrologers and wizards all agreed that the portents indicated an heir to the throne. When, instead, a puling female appeared, Henry's fury was terrible. Was it for this insignificant Elizabeth that he had defied the Pope, divorced his first wife, and even sacrificed...
...dangerous ordeal." But fear inhibits the muscles which open the womb and thrust out the child, causing pain and compounding the fear into further suffering. He claims to have made childbirth a pleasure for many women by 1) starting to dispel their fears and ignorance soon after they become pregnant, 2) teaching them in advance how to relax and make the child come easily, 3) giving them close, sympathetic attention during the early stages of labor, when many doctors and nurses abandon the patient to a lonely state of terror and pain...