Word: os
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...countenanced, he thought. The use of aspiration or testicular puncture was not acceptable. "The only way which presently seems open is that of postcoital artificial insemination between spouses . . . What medical science does [in such cases] is to further pump or inject the semen, coitally deposited, right into the external os, into the cervical canal, hoping that the teeming millions of injected spermatozoa may swim their way up ... to meet an ovum.. This method, utilized to aid nature, might obtain the moralist's permission...
Last week without warning, almost casually, the council canceled the subsidies on cooking oil, soap, milk and beef for the capital. Porteños whispered that the President himself had appeared before the council to ask for the step. The rumor ran that soon all subsidies, even the whopping annual support for wheat and sugar, would be lifted...
...Mediterranean. But Britain had betrayed that promise. After his hour-and-a-half speech, Franco returned to Madrid's royal palace, through streets loud with posters proclaiming: "Down with England!" and "We have more guts than all U.N. put together." From, his balcony, Franco accepted the madrileños' dutiful homage...
Fashionable porteños play Canasta from 6, when offices close, until 9:30-just before dinner time. The new game has swept the swank Jockey Club and the Circulo de Armas; the presidents of those fabulously wealthy organizations solemnly met with the president of the Argentine Bridge Association to codify the rules and scoring of the game. For the benefit of their pet charities a dozen women's clubs held Canasta tournaments last week at the Plaza and Alvear Palace Hotels...
Radiomen were polishing their own "Os cars" this week as the annual Peabod. Awards* were announced in Manhattan For the first time, television was officially recognized and captured two awards. Win ners...