Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sometimes you get a good one and sometimes you don't. Germany has the kind of leadership she wants. So have we (God help us). England had the kind she wanted in Chamberlain and now she has what she wants in Churchill. The people, not the times, are pregnant and produce their man. The times simply perform the male function...
With a terrible, pregnant symbolism, World War II jumped last week from the birthplace of democracy to the birthplace of mankind. Five days after Athens fell, fighting broke out in Iraq, traditional site of the Garden of Eden. In its beginning the new conflict was a minor embarrassment to Britain; in its potentialities it was a threat as serious as any the British Empire had yet suffered...
...dead man. The daughter (Betsy Blair) tends the mice in the house and believes it is they who sometimes spell out her name in flowers on the floor (actually it is just Brother, assisting the family poesy). Brother (Eugene Loring) writes "books"-each consisting of a single pregnant word. One "book" reads "tree." He can also "hear" another vagrant brother in New York playing Paul Whiteman's old waltz, Wonderful One, on the cornet. A shy official arrives, bent on canceling the pension check, but is so beglamored by the fey, bemused life of the household that he arranges...
...spring day last year, a young woman walked into the clinic of the Boston Lying-in Hospital. She had the "profile," said Dr. Robert Northwall Rutherford, of a woman five months' pregnant. Proudly she told the doctor about the lively kickings of her unborn child, which her husband had also noticed...
...Rutherford gave the patient a careful examination. She was not pregnant. She had no tumor. He wanted to find out what caused the huge swelling, but "she received the diagnosis of spurious pregnancy with contempt," and marched off to consult another physician...