Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wenger woke up in a hospital with a fractured right leg. His wife was critically hurt: severe multiple brain hemorrhages which caused complete paralysis of her limbs and facial muscles. She could not talk, eat or even smile. And she was pregnant...
...Halles, "the belly of Paris," 250 market women left their stalls last week, crowded into a schoolroom where a plainly dressed woman, obviously and proudly pregnant, talked about food and coal. Her tone was conversational, her words easy to understand. She knew what interested them, did Jeannette Vermeersch. Listening to her was like a chat around a kitchen table. It was hard to realize that Jeannette Vermeersch might be the next First Lady of France...
...another section of Parliament some Britons felt that spring-cleaning had gone too far. When Laborite T. C. Skeffington-Lodge quoted statements that 40% of Britain's dewy, young (under 20) brides were pregnant on their wedding day, the House of Commons could only shake its collective fatherly head. Conservative Novelist Beverley Baxter doubted the shocking estimate, warned: "If this is published without considerable repudiation, it will shock the people of the Dominions...
That memory is especially pertinent on this particular postwar evening. For there is no mistake about it this time; Susan is pregnant. And Bill is not at all sure how his interview Monday will turn out. "Scared?" Susan asks. "Sure," he says...
...Tilli's unmarried daughter, Sandal, who has been curiously queasy in the mornings, carries on the Bean extra-marital tradition. Says Grandma Bean-Rechetti: "Sandal, I've told thy Mother I think thee's pregnant. Am I right?" Says Sandal: "Yes, Grandma, thee's right...