Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finally retired from the ring, with pandemonium at his heels. . . . He finally returned and with scarcely any delay rode straight at the bull, who was meeting him half way. In this contact the pony was gored in the chest section and in the encounter Pickett was able to obtain his position for throttling the bull. . . . At no time was Pickett on the bull's back nor did he ever bite the animal's nose. It is one thing to "bulldog" or wrestle with a ewe-necked steer and quite another to tackle a well-developed fighting bull. Pickett...
...States abortion is legal if it is necessary to save the patient's life. Because of the difficulty in proving that any specific abortion was not necessary, prosecutors find it next to impossible to secure convictions. Medical practice, more strict, requires that a doctor, before performing an abortion, obtain the agreement of one colleague that it is necessary. Pregnancy can be arrested by a number of means, all more or less uncertain, more or less hazardous. Commonest is the taking of drugs to cause contraction of the uterus, expulsion of the fetus. The danger of this method is that...
...many U. S. cities exist "clinics"* where a woman may obtain an abortion and treatment. Fees range from $100 to $250. Part of the fee may go to the consultant who "makes it legal." Part goes to the "nursing home" where the patient stays for a period of from two days to a week. In the higher priced of these "clinics" the curettage method is used. The operator may be a skilled surgeon whose sympathy or venality overcomes his professional ethics, or he may be a bungler...
...things lately, and since then he has been a harassed man, under indictment." Asked to explain the indictment, Mr. La Guardia said genially: "Well, it seems that he started to write a book, The Great American Swindle, or so he tells me ... and he says that in order to obtain some of his facts he had to act like a criminal. He was trying to show that forged securities were put in circulation, and now he is under indictment for forging securities...
Like any soap-boxer, President Charles Lee Smith of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism sparred with God last October at Columbus Circle in Manhattan. A city ordinance requires that pavement preachers obtain a permit to orate. Soap-Boxer Smith was arrested for having no permit. Two courts convicted him of violating the ordinance. The Court of Appeals reversed the decision last week, unanimously agreeing that...