Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thousands of Americans, mostly in the Eastern states, were down last week with something loosely described as flu. The U.S. Public Health Service, on guard against a new epidemic of the Asian flu, which first appeared in 1957, renewed its standard warning to groups of vulnerable people-pregnant women, patients who already have heart or lung disease, and the elderly-to get flu shots. Among children, much of the illness was of an old type, though one so recently distinguished from other diseases by medical scientists that it is not yet listed in the standard medical texts or dictionaries: parainfluenza...
...kidding, it really is an accident, and the same can be said of what happens to Nuyen. She is the King's concubine, and he loves her soft yellow skin. He just doesn't want it on any child of his. When she gets pregnant, he orders her to abort. When she refuses, he moves out. When she gives birth to the baby, she dies. It's as simple as that, and no court costs...
...Some groups seem to enjoy beheading their victims; others specialize in cutting a man to ribbons so that he slowly bleeds to death. "Sometimes," says Guzmán, "children are put in charge of this exercise in sadism." In "leave no seed" killings, children in a family are murdered, pregnant women are chopped open, and men are emasculated...
...without a word of preparation, the god brings home a bride (Key Meersman). Poor thing, she is only two years older than the boy, and the brute treats her just as badly. About two weeks after the wedding, without a word of preparation, he leaves her-pregnant. Alone together, the two children timidly fall in love, and when the baby is born, the son assumes the responsibilities his father has shirked. When the father returns, the son sees with awful clarity that his idol has feet of clay. One day, without a word of preparation, the son leaves the island...
...Sturdy enough to saddle up and ride, the midget horses have other endearing qualities that may make Cousin Caroline's pony, Macaroni, lose a length in Kennedy affections. Says Falabella: "They eat practically nothing-far less than sheep-and can be completely housebroken. The mares are always getting pregnant; in fact they are disgustingly happy and healthy...