Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Authentic Jellybean. Mrs. Towne and her daughters came back. Mrs. Towne was "overflowing with misinterpreted Continental idioms, bad hotel French, and a lofty disdain for everything American." Elaine got herself pregnant, and half the young sports in the Delta made up a $10,000 purse for the salesman who married her off their hands. Van, as viciously authentic a jellybean* as has ever seen print, headed faster & faster toward jail. Old Man Towne bought a ball team so he could watch Sunday baseball, won $10,000 bets on game after game...
...Bits of Heaven," a U.S. traveler in 1936 called a pregnant nest of Pacific islets which the U.S. sooner or later must take or neutralize. The islands: the Truk group (see map) in Japan's mandated Carolines...
...Shaga Nazad. As evidence of the situation's seriousness, however, Red Star? the Army's newspaper, lengthened its slogan from "Not one step backward" (Ni shaga nazad) to "Not one step backward without order of commanders." In a moment "pregnant with great danger for our country," Red Star appealed to southern troops to maintain iron discipline from the top commanders to the lowest ranks...
...answers to his pregnant questions were hinted at by Maine's Republican Senator Ralph Brewster, hornet-mad over the lack of a real unified command on the Arctic front. Said he: "Naval forces in the area are commanded from Seattle, while Army units are commanded from Anchorage, Alaska. That means the two responsible officers are 2,000 miles apart." The highest ranking military man on the Alaskan scene is Major General Simon Bolivar Buckner, who controls Army operations there, but when concurrent Navy sea or air action is needed, orders must come from Vice Admiral Charles Freeman...
...arrogant atheist" individualist-poet, he had not bothered even to visit the newborn, crowded shrine. But now in his old age he confronts in Lourdes's hospital the full weight of disease and death, and is reborn into the mysteries of his childhood. As Lafite, a cancer pregnant in his throat and his weary mind working at its poor height, is drawn, hypnotically, nearer & nearer the iron grille which now shields the wet stones of the grotto, Werfel ceases to be the reverent and grateful craftsman. He becomes, for a few pages, one of the best things...