Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Midwestern girl living in a small Midwestern town. Horrified by her drunken father, she rejects completely, literally and figuratively sending him to jail. And she adopts rigidly moral ideas about her own life. By being "good" she manages to destroy everything she touches and, eventually, to kill herself while pregnant with the child she conceived to force her husband into a sense of responsibility...
...your July 24 issue, you had an article about pregnant women eating laundry starch. I really did not believe it. Then I started asking my own prenatal patients, who come in for blood tests at our clinic. My results are four out of ten eat starch, two ate clay, and one was addicted to cement. Unbelievable...
...your story regarding Argo starch addiction in many pregnant Negro women [July 28]: This is nothing new or astonishing to many Northern doctors. As a former Yankee who was a medical student and intern in Cincinnati during the mid-fifties, I was well aware of this common practice, which was frequently discussed on our ward rounds. While some may believe this eating of starch has profound psychiatric implications, our understanding (based on talking with many of these mothers) is much homelier. Through folklore, many women believe that the starch, in some fashion, enhances the production of vernix caseosa, thereby making...
...Thirty years ago when I became pregnant with my first child, I began to bleed. The doctors tried everything, but nothing helped. My grandmother, who was born in Rumania, suggested I try one-half glass of starch dissolved in water three times a day. My bleeding stopped, and I had a full-term, normal...
...home, who presumably indicate their gratitude by rushing out to the supermarkets to buy countless boxes of soap and cans of hair spray. Last week a Hollywood packaging agency announced that it was working up yet a new variation on the theme. It will be called The Newly Pregnant. "Specifically," explained one of the producers, "it's a group of three pregnant women who appear onstage while their husbands are kept in an isolation booth. The women are asked questions about raising children. Then they go into the booth, and their husbands are asked the same questions. The couple...