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Word: foamingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brilliantly blue, bitterly cold winter afternoon, and Joe Downhill is 73rd in line for the chair lift. He shuffles his $200 fiber glass skis and $90 foam-injected Rieker boots, pokes forward a few inches with his $35 aluminum poles, and shivers in his $95 quilted parka, while his $10 all-day lift ticket flutters in the chill breeze and his stomach rumbles from that rotten $2.50 lunchtime ratburger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Skiing | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

...course, accidents do happen, though it is usually the user rather than the contraceptive that fails. Pills are forgotten, and diaphragms, condoms or spermicidal foam are either imprudently omitted or improperly used. I.U.D.s sometimes prove ineffective. Women occasionally become pregnant while in the process of changing from one means of contraception to another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Legal Abortion: Who, Why and Where | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

Advertising the world over is becoming more permissive and explicit. Last week, for the first time in North America, the Canadian Radio-TV Commission approved television commercials for a contraceptive. The product is Delfen foam, made by Ortho Pharmaceutical Ltd., a Toronto-based subsidiary of the U.S.'s Johnson & Johnson. Beginning in about a month, the 60-second color commercial will show a mother and child, with a sound track of cooing and gurgling. The message will stress family planning and will be carried only after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Contraceptives on TV | 8/9/1971 | See Source »

...waterfall under which the youngsters can walk or ride, a grassy knoll up which they can crawl, and a periscope through which they can peer over the fence. Shallow pools are set waist high so that wheelchair patients can bathe their dolls or sail their boats, and a huge foam-rubber mattress cushions a play pit for the more disabled. To give the children the experience of height, the park's designers have created a pair of redwood tree houses in real trees, reached by ramps from the ground. In one tree house, the youngsters will find a curved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Playground for The Handicapped | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

...youth's meccas is Amsterdam, where the populace is particularly tolerant of the hip and hairy. City-funded sleeping projects have been set up in abandoned factories and warehouses, offering foam-rubber mat beds, showers and rock music for 80? a night. Copenhagen is another In place. City fathers have opened new youth hostels and "youth cities" of cot-filled army tents where boys and girls, not always segregated by sex, can do more together than brush their teeth. At Vendersgade 8 in the middle of town, an advisory center directs new arrivals to cheap beds. Free rock concerts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rites of Passage: The Knapsack Nomads | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

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