Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the most optimistic of planned parenthood enthusiasts lose hope at the problems that India's vast illiterate, tradition-bound populace presents. Indian wives feel that they can justify their dowry only by proving fertility, and such contraceptives as diaphragms and birth control pills are either too complicated or too expensive. Best hope for the future are the intrauterine devices that are simple, cheap and reliable. Most popular now in India is the "coil," a plastic, S-shaped loop inserted in the womb, which can be removed if the woman wants a child. India's first coil factory...
Until recently, builders did little but complain about the problem, spent considerable amounts of money air-conditioning inside rooms at the same time they were heating outside rooms-particularly in glass-walled buildings, whose outside rooms not only lose a great deal of heat in winter but get cooked by the summer sun. Finally, in the early '60s, General Electric engineers lit upon a solution: trap the heat-light through special ducts in the lighting fixtures, pipe it to outside rooms where it is needed most. They found that whole buildings could be heated inexpensively with nothing more than...
...whizzing over his head. His coverage of the 1956 presidential campaign impressed Adlai Stevenson enough to offer him a job on a projected White House staff. While reporting the last Republican convention, Chancellor suffered the indignity of being carted out of the hall by the cops. He did not lose his aplomb. "I'm being taken down off the arena now by the police," he calmly reported over TV as he was being ousted, "and I'll check in later. This...
...liquor service, nothing at all on food-and that lobbies are just so much dead space. Tabler hotels have small lobbies, plenty of bedrooms. Says he: "Bedrooms are the cheapest thing in a hotel to build, and they produce all the profit. We cut down on the things that lose money...
...custom entirely, for despite its iniquities, it is the only form of marriage insurance in many African societies. Tribal laws dictate that if a marriage breaks up because of the wife's misdeeds, her husband gets his money back; if the fault is his, however, he can lose both bride and dowry. "The bride price amounts to peace of mind," says American-educated Grace Wagema, head of Kenya's Community Development Services. "Until we have a marriage law like the Europeans, it will continue to be the safest form of marriage." At a Y.W.C.A. conference in nearby Uganda...