Word: aimer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fill in the blanks in her colleagues' medical educations, she first wrote a technical book on family planning and last year lashed out at the popular level in La Grand'peur d'Aimer (The Great Fear of Loving), with a prefatory send-off from famed Authoress Simone (The Second Sex) de Beauvoir. Its simply told case histories of women who needed to prevent unwanted pregnancies aroused the conscience of her fellow doctors. France's leading Protestant theologian, Pastor Marc Boegner, backed her; so did Authors Georges Duhamel and Gabriel Marcel. In their wake came scores...
Bear Traps & Wing Flaps. While the report made the casual rounds of 70-odd Capitol committees and agencies, it was Oklahoma's Democratic Senator A. S. (for Aimer Stillwell) "Mike" Monroney, among all his colleagues, who most clearly sensed the challenge and grabbed it. As chairman of the Senate Aviation Subcommittee, Mike Monroney ran the report through his committee and got legislation moving. With single-minded disregard for political pitfalls and bureaucratic bear traps, Monroney thrashed his way through the congressional jungle with expert leadership. One member of his safari: Pete Quesada, whose good World War II friend...