Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter in Kiska from his wife asking him for a divorce. A pilot in the Thirteenth Air Force on Guadalcanal, also married for a long time, got a letter from his wife whom he hadn't seen for 18 months saying, 'I'm pregnant. I'll explain when...
Obstetrician. The notion that expectant mothers should quit work and take to their beds was attacked by Dr. Nicholson J. Eastman of Johns Hopkins. Deploring the common industrial practice of discharging pregnant women, he cited wartime findings that light factory work does them no harm, that they can safely work until six weeks before delivery. Dr. Eastman added that women do not need as much rest between babies as commonly supposed; a study of 38,000 mothers showed that the optimum interval is one to two years (TIME...
...Rome an astonished carabinieri officer blinked, gasped, began to count. Never had he seen so many pregnant romanas trudging back from visits to the countryside. He remembered Mussolini and his medals for motherhood. But Il Duce was gone. Could it be that his works were marching on? The suspicious carabiniere decided to investigate, uncovered a widespread fraud. In fitted containers under their clothes the "pregnant" women were delivering olive oil to Rome's black-market buyers. A few days of prenatal checkups yielded ten tons...
Marriage left her with a daughter (now four) and a feeling that pregnancy is woman's happiest state. "Gee, I'd like to be pregnant again! " says Sunny reminiscently. "It was lots...
...someone got three camels and two probables on a strafing mission. I don't know whether it was one of the Chinese boys or one of the Americans, and I don't give a damn, but it has got to stop. Furthermore, I understand those camels were pregnant...