Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nightmare retreat of the British Army across France and the howling hell of Dunkirk, the U.S. Army found a pregnant sermon for its officers to ponder. For the past month the Army has heard that sermon delivered by a man who had come through the awful works and could tell how. Pink-cheeked, 45-year-old British Brigadier Thomas Needham Furnival Wilson, D.S.O., M.C., returned to Washington last week (and set off forthwith for the Carolina maneuvers) after a 30-day lecture tour in U.S. Army posts. Total of his officer audiences: close...
Coach Harlow hopes that loss to the Elis will not be symbolical, as he heads into the final week of football practice with a team pregnant with reserve strength and devoid of injuries...
...story: the real Nancy Hanks, the natural daughter of a well-born Virginia planter, was a pretty barmaid at her Aunt Ann's tavern at Craytonville, S.C. Calhoun, who was just beginning law practice, stopped there often on his way home from court. When Nancy was discovered pregnant, Calhoun quickly admitted his guilt and gave her $500 to leave the State. For a second $500 he arranged to have a trader's hired hand take her home with him. The hired hand was husky, hard-drinking Tom Lincoln. When the trader's wife objected to having...
...several wards of the vast new Triboro Hospital for tuberculosis have been standing empty since January-there are not enough nurses to run them. In the Midwest some hospitals have closed entire wings, although patients are clamoring for admittance-they have not enough nurses. In Washington, D.C., doctors urged pregnant women to have their babies at home -because hospitals are overcrowded, short of nurses...
...distinguished family: "According to the published records, Hitler's grandmother had an illegitimate son, and this son was to become the father of Germany's present leader. But an inquiry once ordered by the late Austrian chancellor, Engelbert Dollfuss, disclosed that the Fuhrer's grandmother became pregnant during her employment as a servant in a Viennese family. . . . And the family . . . was none other than that of Baron Rothschild...