Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marquise was clearly pregnant, but she didn't know how she had gotten that way. Hers was not the usual fault of having been too generous to too many men. She was a virtuous Italian lady of noble birth, a gentle widow and devoted mother. Her father, mother and doctor were not amused when she denied having entertained any man, and a midwife sternly reminded her that only the Virgin Mary had been raised above the law of nature. Whereupon the baffled Marquise put an ad in the paper, described her predicament and asked any man to come forward...
...next day a notorious Menderes enemy was struck dead. Explained one Istanbul editor: "If we told our illiterate masses that Bayar and Menderes trampled on the constitution, they would think it was some kind of a rug." The junta figures that any Turk will understand Afghan hounds and pregnant mistresses. The question is whether the rest of the world will understand Turkish justice...
...nice. But this is beside the point. I have stated repeatedly that as far as I am concerned clothing is not an issue in this campaign. I would certainly not want anyone to vote for or against me because of the clothing of my wife, who is pregnant. In fact, I would go so far as to call any attack on my pregnant wife's clothing unprincipled. It is the kind of attack that President Roosevelt characterized on December 8, 1941, as "a sudden and dastardly attack...
...disturbed but vital, in scenes where lives come together, or clash, or come apart. An illegitimate young girl lives with her tramp of a mother, who soon enough runs off with a man. The girl herself has a brief affair with a Negro sailor on leave, becomes pregnant, is cared for by a young homosexual who moves in with her, and at the end is left alone to have her baby...
...streak in the Spanish character that accounts for the popularity of the corrida has had its effect on the nation's literature. The result is that Spain's fictional heroines suffer at least as much wear and tear as her fighting bulls. When the reader meets pretty, pregnant, unmarried Eulalia trudging toward the Catalan fishing village that cast her out months before, the outcome of Author Salisachs' novel is not hard to predict. Sure enough, 300 pages later the tarnished maiden lies dead from loss of blood in a seaside cave, her squalling love child beside...