Word: pregnants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family failure, is a charming fellow who supports his pregnant wife and four small daughters by washing windows for an undertaker and borrowing from brother Alain. He hits on a scheme to enrich himself when the agate-eyed undertaker offers him 60,000 francs to sign a "dying wish," asking Alain to provide him with a de luxe funeral. The undertaker thereupon makes Désiré sick through autosuggestion, and rapidly pushes him to the brink of the de luxe funeral, only to drop dead himself. Désiré recovers instantly and signs himself (and Alain...
...sleep together. From that point on, Sally drags the reluctant Isherwood along on a series of crazy escapades, notably with a rich American who happily pays the bills in return for shacking up with Sally. Her one serious moment arrives when she decides that she is pregnant, but she again becomes her old sylph on discovering that she was falsely alarmed...
...three scientists - R. L. W. Averill, C. E. Adams and L. E. A. Rowson -flushed out newly fertilized ova from the Fallopian tubes of freshly killed pregnant ewes. Then they transplanted the tiny ova to the reproductive tracts of seven female rabbits which had been mated previously with sterilized males to activate their hormone systems. Five days later, the rabbits were killed and the sheep eggs taken out in surgery. The ova had grown as in any pregnancy. Two of the best-developed eggs were replanted in a nonpregnant ewe; 16 days later, the scientists found that the twice-switched...
...Beginning was the Woman. Goddess of All Things," she rose naked out of Chaos, danced so wildly that great wind sprang up. The goddess caressed the wind and it became a great serpent which coiled itself lustfully around her. The goddess became pregnant, assumed a dove's form laid "the Universal Egg." Out of the Egg tumbled all things that exist sun, moon, planets, stars, the earth with its mountains and rivers, its trees, herbs and living creatures." Swollen with pride the serpent declared himself "the author ot tne universe," which made the goddess so angry that she kicked...
...kicking off a national campaign on mental health. Before the speech is finally given, Tom has to take a bumpy ride over his own well-scarred mental highway. It is stalked by the ghosts of 1) the men he killed as a wartime paratrooper, 2) the girl he left pregnant in Rome, 3) his suicide father and the depletion of the family estate...