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Word: pregnants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diapers in quantity in England because the mills were then subsidized to make other kinds of cheap piece goods ... So she went shopping in the guise of an expectant mother . . . When clerks asked for her "green card" (a mother's special ration book), she just looked more pregnant. Anyway, despite all the government could do, she's in business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Road Back | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...crotchety Irish widower (James Barton), defies the old man by going into show business and taking up with Showman Tony Pastor (Gordon MacRae). Another daughter (Marsha Jones), who has already defied him by marrying secretly, is expecting twins. The central gag: learning that one of the girls is pregnant, Barton suspects the worst of June. The music and dance routines strike an efficient, lusterless com promise between vaudeville of the Tony Pastor era and the kind now dispensed by television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two of a Kind | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...another Briggs room, a mouse climbs up and down the window curtain at will, taking tinsel from a plant pot for its nest. "We're afraid its pregnant," stated the occupants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rodents Romp at Radcliffe, Blithely Invite Eradication | 4/13/1950 | See Source »

...courage to shriek in crusades against political shenanigans and incompetent bureaucrats. Last year, its able newshen Sara White wrote a series which helped reinstate Miriam Van Waters, a competent reformatory superintendent who had been fired for too progressive penal methods. Last week, Reporter White also won freedom for a pregnant mother of four children, imprisoned for neglect without having been given legal counsel. But neither the Traveler nor any other Boston paper printed the prison record of J. Joseph Connors, appointed an election commissioner in 1948 by Mayor James Curley, until more than a year after out-of-town publications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: For Proper Bostonians | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...Plain Blackmail." Alfredo denied that the marriage of Father Coronel and Gloria was a shotgun affair, claimed instead that the priest himself had suggested that he marry Gloria when he learned she was pregnant. Said Alfredo: "I even asked him how it was possible for a priest to marry, and he said there is no law against it, that in America they do it all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Delicate Question | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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