Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is palaver between a liberal writer and a Nazi diplomat, and the story of a refugee Jewess. There is a quarrel between a pregnant bride, eager for placid home life, and her Jewish husband who has a confused desire for some active role in Democracy's defense. At length, after what seems hours of talk, a Belgian woman, whose husband has been blinded and her child maimed by German bombs, becomes momentarily crazed and attempts to shoot the Nazi emissary-something that would never happen on Bill Winston's Pan American Clipper. The bullet wounds the young...
...Delton Conly both loved adventure. They were married last year and sailed out of Oakland, Calif. for a cruise to Hawaii and on around the world in a converted lifeboat. That trip ended just outside of Golden Gate when Eve, who was pregnant, became ill. Ashore, they moped around until their round-eyed daughter, Patsy, was six months old. Last summer the Conlys began making new plans...
...Pregnant women (those near their time were identified by blue tickets) and mothers who accompanied their babies to the country were the quickest to return...
...identify skein after skein of German aircraft which, from bases in Nazified France, swept over the Channel and swooped upon British shipping or soared on over Britain to bomb inland objectives. So experienced had many a British "spotter" become that by ear he could tell a squadron of death-pregnant German Heinkels, going out to work, from a flight of British Blenheims returning from work. Meanwhile the Germans adopted new technique: sending a swift, lone leader at high altitude to lay a smoke trail to the objective, which the bombers followed at out-of-sight altitude. This technique was doubtless...
Last week as defeat-fluid France was poured inexorably into a Nazi mold, the U. S., like Britain before it, faced a similarly pregnant question: What if Britain should lose...