Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Casual Use. Most fertility experts insist that the drugs are indeed safe -if they are used with care and discretion. Unfortunately, says Manhattan Gynecologist Edward Stim, who rarely prescribes the drugs, they are sometimes given on a casual, "Why not give it a try?" basis. Clomid, a synthetic hormone-like drug, seems to work by stimulating the pituitary gland to release hormones that help to ripen the ovum. Pergonal, a hormonal extract from the urine of postmenopausal women, primes the ovaries so that another hormone -human chorionic gonadotropin or HCG-can ensure the release of the ovum. Neither treatment should...
...tens of thousands of Portuguese workers took advantage of the brilliant spring sunshine to celebrate May Day in Lisbon's huge outdoor May 1st Stadium. Loudspeakers blared, military helicopters chuffed overhead dropping red carnations, and election posters were plastered on every available inch of wall space. To a casual observer, it might have seemed as if the election had not yet taken place. Not so. It was just that after 49 years of repression-and months of intense politicking-no one could resist one more political show...
Said a high embassy official later: "The old man had to lean on him and substantially." The casual, colloquial phrase summed up a momentous fact: the U.S. was finally forced to abandon the man on whom for years it had staked its Viet Nam policy?and, indeed, finally forced to abandon Viet Nam. Even as Ambassador Martin returned to his embassy, the last remnants of the once mighty American presence, the few thousand citizens who remained in the country, were hastening to Tan Son Nhut airport for evacuation flights home. For North Viet Nam, Thieu's departure represented a stunning...
NICK HAD learned a few new things about love himself. When the name Debby Bartosch came up in one casual conversation. Penny pressed Nick about her. "Aw, don't worry about her," said Nick. "You'll like Debby when you meet her." This was the Debby Bartosch who went with Nick and me to the annual Pelican Avenue New Year's eve party, and at which Nick and Debby were scheduled to perform a "crab mating dance" for the throngs. They somehow failed their scheduled performance and ended up wrapped up in the same blanket in the back room, both...
...only in the sudden death of a casual acquaintance that Locke sees a chance to escape. Robertson had told Locke he was simply "on business" in this unlikely location. There is a physical resemblance between the two men, and when Locke discovers Robertson dead of a heart attack, he stares at him like a man at his own funeral. Then, after a time, he puts on Robertson's blue shirt and changes the photographs on both their passports. He leaves Africa with a new life...