Word: downers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem in about 35% of female-infertility cases, IVF was the only option. The first try at the Midwest Center for Reproductive Health in Minneapolis ended in a miscarriage, and the second, using leftover embryos that had been frozen, didn't take at all. "We had some real downer weeks, particularly after the second attempt," says Rick, an excavation contractor...
...Reported by Dan Cray/Pasadena and Joanna Downer and Dick Thompson/Washington
...instance, Ozment was describing the medieval belief in succubi, demons who would seduce men and then transform into swine. Ozment jokingly pointed out what a "downer" it would be to suddenly hear "Oink, oink," in the middle of a passionate embrace...
...traces its lineage to 1964 Preakness champ Northern Dancer--until giving up the track for a life of dressage and show jumping. To further nail the female audience, NBC brought back the soothing, soft John Tesh, formerly of Entertainment Tonight, a far cry from the prickly Bryant Gumbel and downer sidebars on orphans aired during the Korean Games in 1988. It is hard to forget that Tesh's expertise runs more to the marriage of rocker Tommy Lee and Baywatch's Pamela Anderson than to hard news when he uses "histrionics" to mean history...
Photography: Robert Frank, father of downer picturesque...