Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest living war commentator was speaking to the House of Commons, but his audience was the world. In the broad view, Winston Churchill's report was pregnant with political implications. But in the area of combat (as in the field of specific inter-Allied power politics) Churchill's summary, his first in five months of intensified military operations and preparations, was also the clear and vivid report of a great commander...
Nine months ago the first ASTP language group arrived at Harvard, and so naturally we are pregnant with potentialities as we leave next week for parts unknown...
...Republican Party, today invigorated by this infusion of new blood, has already proven it has an abundance of administrative skill; that it is pregnant with the new ideas; that it has an understanding of America's place in the world...
...Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Paramount) is a little like taking a nun on a roller coaster. Its ordinary enough subject -the difficulties of a small-town girl, pregnant, without a husband-is treated with the catnip giddiness to be expected from Writer-Director Preston Sturges (The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve). The overall result is one of the most violently funny comedies, one of the most original, vigorous and cheerfully outrageous moving pictures that ever came out of Hollywood. The picture also has its faults-both as fun and as cinema...
Morgan's Creek is the home town of Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton), a daftly endearing innocent who gradually remembers one morning that she married a transient soldier the night before-his name was something, she recalls, like Private Ratzkywatzsky. Presently she also realizes that she is pregnant. Fond as she is of her widower Poppa (William Demarest), she knows better than to confide in him; he has the worst film temper since the twilight of the Keystone Cops. But her young sister Emily (Diana Lynn) knows precisely what Trudy must do. She must marry Norval before he knows what...