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Word: pregnants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Batista, with his pregnant wife and one small child, was lunching in his third-floor .residential quarters. Grabbing a pistol and crouching below window level, he phoned army and navy forts for help. Below, the shooting went on as the guard rallied and began to fight the attackers back down the bloody stairs. Not one of the 21 reached the door alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Not Afraid to Die | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

Being 43 and a male, I never have been pregnant [as Judy Holliday is in Full of Life-Feb. 18]. However, the peanut butter and onion sandwich is one of my favorites. The peanut butter cuts the strength of the onion, and the onion cuts the dry ness of the peanut butter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 18, 1957 | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Humbert's would-be child bride is stolen from him by a playwright with an Aztec Red convertible. When Humbert sees Lolita again she is a post-nymphet 17, pregnant and married to a wholesome ex-G.I. But she still loves the playwright, and in a hilarious and nightmarish murder scene Humbert pumps bullet after bullet into him while the victim protests with phony British aplomb: "Ah. that hurts, sir, enough! Ah, that hurts atrociously, my dear fellow. I pray you, desist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pnin & Pan | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...commission ordered a postmortem, found that he had been beaten to death. Explanation by the British police: Panayiotou had attempted to escape custody. Yet another case was that of Maria Anastasiou Lambrou who, after her Greek-speaking interrogator had punched her on the nose, warned him that she was pregnant. Thereupon the interrogator had told her that unless she told him the whereabouts of EOKA's top man, Colonel Grivas, she would suffer a miscarriage, which after two subsequent attacks, she did. Constable 1413 brought her a cup of tea, and she was taken to the hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: The Counter-Terror | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...took in only $600,000 at the box office, or the $1,000,000 to the San Carlo Opera with only $300,000 in ticket sales. Despite the low box office, such houses are usually full because of cheap seats (40?) and privileged spectators-politicians, functionaries, war wounded, pregnant women-who get in at cut rates or free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Crisis in Italy | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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