Word: feds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apartments in New York City and San Francisco were tarted up with red draperies, dressing tables trimmed in black velveteen and Toulouse-Lautrec posters. At night, women lured men to the hideaways and fed them LSD or marijuana, while other men watched the action through two-way mirrors and tape-recorded the sounds...
...Kremlin's fulminations are "80% Soviet propaganda" intended to force the U.S. to dilute its comprehensive, tough position on arms control. Carter has thus vowed to "hang tough." He feels that there is nothing wrong with making the Soviets squirm occasionally, and that the U.S. public has been getting fed up with what has appeared (often erroneously) to be Moscow's taking advantage of detente...
...generosity. Rubens' world was tumescent; even the eyes in his portraits, large, white, engorged with visual appetite, look like erogenous zones. All his women-those grandly callipygian wardrobes of radiant flesh, whose bodies we feebly classify as "fat"-seem, as Sir Joshua Reynolds once remarked, to have "fed upon roses." The late landscapes he painted around Chateau de Steen, his country seat out side Brussels, are an extraordinary blend of the God's-eye-view landscape of mannerist art with the dense enumeration of Rubens' own material possessions...
...discovered that the Chinese health system aims to bring at least minimal medical care to every citizen, largely through the wide use of paramedics known as "barefoot doctors" and a network of spartan but well-staffed clinics and hospitals across the country. "Everyone we saw looked healthy and well fed," said Dr. Maclyn McCarty, a Rockefeller vice president and professor of biomedicine. The Chinese were well informed about what their Western colleagues were doing. They religiously read such scientific publications as the British Nature and the U.S. Science. The visiting scientists were impressed by the work the Chinese have been...
...spite of federal disapproval. In fighting against the drugs, federal health officials have suffered from their loss of some public respect following the false swine-flu scare and the FDA'S proposed restrictions on the sale of saccharin. The agency acted after the laboratory rats which were fed huge quantities of the substance then developed cancer...