Word: pregnants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reel, it is plain that the heroine (Judy Holliday) is full of life. As she flap-foots into her average suburban kitchen, her face zombie-like in the spell of some unspeakable urge, it will be obvious to the last row, third balcony, that the lady is pregnant. But what is this dark drive that possesses her? With somnambulistic stare she crosses to the kitchen counter. She reaches for a knife-and then for the bread and peanut butter. She raises the sandwich to her mouth, hesitates. A gleam of madness flickers in her eye. She takes out an onion...
...Woman's Vote: In 1952 some 58% of the women favored Ike and Dick, in 1956 some 61%. This figure too has pregnant potentialities for the next election: for the first time since women won the vote 36 years ago, nearly as many women as men went to the polls...
Youth in Step. Schnitzler, like Freud, was born soon after mid-century in Franz Josef's Austro-Hungarian Empire. Each was his mother's eldest child; each was soon handed over to nursemaids because mother was pregnant again; each was soon bereaved by the death of his next-born brother (Schnitzler at 14 months, Freud at 19). The Schnitzler family was the better off; Freud's father was an unsuccessful wool merchant, while Schnitzler's was a fashionable ear, nose and throat specialist, who basked in limelight reflected from theatrical patients. Both young men became physicians...
Some patients were operated on later, when the infection had subsided. The operation then was easier and recovery was smoother, Surgeon Coldrey believes, than if the patients had gone under the knife while acutely ill. In other cases, operations were avoided for patients either pregnant or suffering such ailments as bronchitis, heart disease or influenza. A prime indication for avoiding an operation, Surgeon Coldrey thinks, is when acute appendicitis develops aboard ship, "away from skilled surgery and adequate surgical surroundings." In fact, Surgeon Coldrey is now beginning to wonder whether it is even necessary to operate automatically in the first...
George gets them. His trials begin with the sudden death of his talented older brother Jeff, who had designed and built the Tower in the West, one of the first skyscrapers in St. Louis. Six months after the fatal accident, George learns that his brother's widow is pregnant by another man. To protect Jeff's good name, he marries her and breaks the heart of true-blue Margaret Carton, who has been patiently waiting for his proposal. George now proceeds to mishandle the affairs of his stepchildren, loses control of his brother's monumental Tower...