Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been no, but with the new ease of communication, the so-called "locality" rule is changing. Massachusetts is the latest state to abandon the old standard. The ruling came in the case of a smalltown anesthesiologist accused of having given an excessive dose of a painkiller to a pregnant woman, thereby causing partial paralysis of her left leg. While noting that the lack of medical resources in a small town could be taken into account, the state's Supreme Judicial Court said: "One holding himself out as a specialist should be held to the standard of care and skill...
...love of a man and the votes of 62 million women,* presidential candidates' wives this year are suffering tortures that would have given Martha Washington the vapors. Ethel Kennedy, three months pregnant, takes a fall on the ice as she and Bobby skim a rink for the benefit of photographers and the skaters' vote. Abigail McCarthy totters out of a sickbed to stump for Gene. Happy Rockefeller endures scores of bone-crushing handshakes daily. Pat Nixon makes her millionth airport arrival, to beam and greet the faithful. Only Muriel Humphrey, recuperating from an operation, has been spared...
...baby on Ethel's lap, trotted alongside for ten blocks while Ethel held the child. At one point, Bobby, his shirttails flying, his hair mussed, his cufflinks gone,* was hauled off the car bodily and had to be dragged back from the crowd's embrace. Ethel, two months pregnant, became faint and nauseated...
...though the Committee demonstrates the myth of Harvard's uniqueness and says "there's no turning the clock back," it implies that only the intangible aura of the community can save the University's standards of excellent. The chapter on The Harvard Community concludes with the vague but pregnant advice: "It is appropriate to ask whether it lies within its power to make Cambridge a more attractive setting for life as well as for work. . . . By providing a milieu encouraging to the development of a variety of subcommittees it could widen the options for involvement open to the Faculty...
...scene I witnessed at Umuahia's Queen Elizabeth Hospital following the air raid was repeated in nearly every Biafran town I visited. Under tall shade trees outside an already filled mortuary lay a score of corpses, including pregnant women and months-old babies, charred, disfigured and mangled. Amid the tearful cries of keening women, workers carried into the morgue mashed human fragments piled on stretchers, and limbs and torsos balanced on shovels. The next morning, clutching handkerchiefs over nose and mouth against the stench and carrying freshly sawed unpainted wood coffins, the families lined up patiently under the trees...