Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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June Ally son, pregnant and playing bull-fiddle in a war-shot orchestra led by Jose Iturbi, hasn't heard from her husband in the South Pacific for months. The other girlish in the orchestra (that old backstage rut) intercept a telegram from the War department and fake a letter from the husband to the mother-to-be. It's all a bit irreverent...
There are pretty young girls and a few pregnant matrons among them. There is also Aning Andao, a wizened old lady in a brocaded black head cover, grey striped shirt and patched quilted skirt, wearing an athlete's gold medal around her neck. She has the milky rings of old age around her irises and old cigar stains on her teeth, but she can climb and carry with the best of them...
When the young wife of John Rapp, the leader's son, became pregnant, vengeance struck quickly. John was found dead and castrated near the Rappite piggery. The Rappites stood in awe in the face of such Divine Wrath, though there were whispers that young Rapp's earthly father had done the deed...
...didn't realize our own strength. . . . There is no telling what the Japanese might do if we were to provoke them editorially. They might even-oops, there we go again. Well, as we were saying, Mr. Price, the Far Eastern situation is fraught with interest, and, uh-er-pregnant with possibilities and, so far as the home-front situation is concerned, it's the very devil of a job to publish a newspaper in the face of censorship inanities...
...Mobilization of a National Volunteer Army - the Jap version of the Nazi Volkssturm - to include all save "the aged, the sick, the very young and pregnant women...