Word: coates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spermicide is usually cold and dense, with a slithery consistency; it is meant to coat the cervix, but succeeds in coating everything else as well with chilly sludge. If intercourse continues so long that this sludge is dissipated, it is a sign that a fresh injection is required, so that night of love becomes a kind of spermicidal bath. Orogenital contact is definitely counter indicated, especially as the spermicides are about as toxic as if sperm were mice... Why the diaphragm and all that sails within it should be so gross is unimaginable: if toothpaste tasted as disgusting as spermicide...
...Listen to Bombeck, who wanted to give her kids the secure childhood she had missed: "I was overwhelmed. You get from your mother what things should be. I'm killing myself. We all did. Are you ready for this? I'm sitting there at midnight bending a coat hanger, putting nose tissue on it to make a Christmas wreath for the door. You know what it looks like? It looks like a coat hanger with tissue that is going to melt when it rains. It's a desperation you cannot imagine. I had a husband who worked...
...Tokyo regional taxation bureau last month accused some of the country's 200,000 Buddhist priests of ignoring that admonition. One, it said, had used unreported income to maintain two mistresses. Another presented his wife with a $95,000 mink coat and a diamond ring worth...
Carrying a fire coat in the trunk of her automobile is just one sign of Feinstein's highly involved, hands-on governing style. She also has a police call number (1-M-600) and keeps a navy blue, civil defense jumpsuit in her car in case she ever needs to assume command after a major earthquake. In the day-to-day affairs of San Francisco, which she has run with increasing sureness for the past five years, virtually no detail is too minor to claim her attention. For her efforts, she can point to some impressive results: San Francisco...
...obvious from the moment she bounded onto the tarmac at a Buenos Aires airport that the years have taken none of the sass out of the indefatigable Isabel, who once earned a living as a cabaret dancer. Sporting a shiny brown leather coat, with a swatch of honey-blond hair falling over her right eye, she strode up to a group of Perónist party leaders, wagged an admonishing finger at them and declared, "Whoever misbehaves will get a spanking." Later, she continued jousting coquettishly with members of the Perónist National Council who had gathered...