Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inspired as never before, the press screamed in flaming red headlines: "The disorder ... of more than three centuries will be revised. . . . An outworn era is crumbling to dust beneath the marching feet of the German Army!" Pregnant with crusading zeal, Nazi Ideologist Alfred Rosenberg proclaimed: "Germany has become the protector of the endangered and oppressed continent. It is fighting against an unholy division of the old and venerable European continent into dozens of pigmy States. National Socialist Germany, the heart of Central Europe, enters upon its historic rights...
Fearful for the wartime rights of expectant mothers and expected children, famed English Feminist Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst, mother of an illegitimate "eugenic" son, urged that pregnant women receive the Army allowance regularly given to children already born (maximum weekly payment...
...Urban, Effie Anderson. He taught them to act as if they were not acting, got them to behave as if they belonged at the clinic. Two of his men studied at the Center to qualify as clinicians. For some of the delivery shots Lorentz used the clinic's pregnant patients. One worked with him for four hours, then went home and had her baby...
Bearer of the message and representative of the Ninety-Nines, an association of women fliers of which Mrs. Gillies is head, was Private Fliers Association Counsel Hav en B. Page (father of three). Mr. Page brandished five obstetricians' opinions on the flying competence of pregnant women.One physician maintained that women are completely capable during 90% of their pregnancy, successfully drive cars, sail boats, etc. Thin, emaciated women, vowed another expert, would be much better pilots if they were four months pregnant. Said he, it makes them feel better ; the attitude of "we males" is largely superstition...
...reason for the Ninety-Nines' protest : because of the ban against pregnant women flying, many a woman with a private license is unable to fly the 15 hours a year necessary for renewal of her certificate, has to keep starting all over again as a student...