Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letter, he describes his finding that male fantasies of being pregnant lie at the core of such assorted disturbances as bleedings, intestinal worms, indigestion, pericarditis, wens, and other swellings, including obesity. "His (the man's) It creates the swollen stomach by means of eating, drinking, flatulency, or what-not, because it wishes to be pregnant, and accordingly believes itself to be so." To my knowledge, despite the daily usage of such metaphors as "pregnant with meaning," the symbolic importance of pregnancy goes unnoticed these days...
After the murder. Agent Stachinsky was reassigned to East Berlin. There, he says, he incurred the wrath of his superiors by making a local girl pregnant and secretly marrying her. Last August, shortly before the Wall was built, Stachinsky and his wife escaped to the West. Now a confessed double murderer, he faces life imprisonment in a West German jail...
...even for a dingy, three-room basement apartment without private bath or kitchen can usually get far more than a working-class family can afford: up to $20 a week in a country where the average weekly wage is $42. For a London scrap-metal dealer and his pregnant wife, "home" after working hours is a three-ton truck. A common racket for landlords is to charge $200 or $300 key money for "fixtures" that seldom amount to more than a broken-down chair. Worst results of the housing shortage: thousands of split families, and the reappearance of something close...
...prize female does become pregnant-whether down the garden path or in the sanctity of a breeding cage at a registered cattery-Greer's book provides instruction in feline midwifery. The basic rule: Do not try to interest the father cat (if he is a member of the household) in the new kittens. He could not care less, and will often kill his own kitten under the impression that it is a mouse...
...reported that Conrad Nagel was handholding at the Derby with Frances Somebody-or-Other, she hardly seemed fazed to discover that Frances was really Francis-and that there had been no handholding. But her friends stand by her: when she prematurely published the claim that a certain actress was pregnant, the actress' husband hastened to prove her correct...