Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beginning her movie career with 1962's A Taste of Honey, elfin English Actress Rita Tushingham, 23, played an illegitimate teen-age girl left pregnant by a passing Negro sailor and befriended by a young homosexual. Well, that sort of squalor was one thing, but when Britain's Associated Television offered her the part of an Irish country girl who turns to drink, Tush demurely demurred. "I simply don't know how to act as if I am drunk," she explained teetotally. "I have never been drunk in my life and don't expect I ever...
...secretary pregnant, he is compelled to marry her. But then the girl herself breaks the code. She has an accidental mis carriage before the wedding but does not tell him and she gets her punishment-the marriage is annulled. Keeping solemn tab on the retributions, not to mention the whole 32-character plot line, is the responsibility of Peyton Place's "story board." The board, consisting of three senior writers, and aided by a constantly updated chart presentation that probably has no counterpart outside the Pentagon's "war room," lays out each episode. Five junior writers then turn...
...flurry of phone calls from hormone-hunting wives flooded New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center last year, when word got out that of 21 women treated there, 15 became pregnant. The seven who completed their pregnancies bore three single babies, three sets of twins and one set of quads (TIME...
...Gandhi tradition (she was once his private physician), she agreed three years ago to test the Lippes loop, a U.S.-designed intrauterine contraceptive device that prevents the development of a fetus in the womb. Only eleven of the 2,839 Indian women fitted with them last year became pregnant, and five of these conceived after their little white loops had been removed. That convinced her, she said last week, that Lippes loops are "the answer" to India's problem...
...secret that the drug was an effective tranquilizer, but it had been withdrawn from the market after thousands of pregnant women who used it delivered malformed babies. "To our surprise," reported Dr. Sheskin in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, "there was rapid subjective and objective improvement." Within eight to 48 hours, pain eased, skin lesions disappeared, and temperature returned to normal. Since then, a score of leprosy patients have been given thalidomide daily, with equally encouraging results...