Word: painless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painless way to vary one's food and one's friends at the same time, interhouse eating has rapidly become a favorite University institution. Free trade in diners is now an accepted practice in all University halls except one--Harkness Commons. Since the practice of signing in undergraduates on board at other houses is taboo at Harkness, a graduate student must pay at least $1.15 every time he brings a House resident as his guest...
...Booted out of a New Brunswick divinity school for "bad misdemeanors and barefaced falsehoods" more than 60 years ago, he took up dentistry, practiced in Brooklyn, held street-corner lectures on oral hygiene and pulled teeth on the spot. In 1915 he changed his name, thereafter advertised himself as Painless Parker, Dentist. When death came he was running 27 offices on the West Coast, employing 75 dentists...
...Reduce. There is no good painless-pill method of reducing, the doctors were told. The A.M.A.'s Dr. Robert Stormont reported that only one drug has proved reasonably safe and useful (amphetamine or a derivative), and even this needs to be used under a doctor's care...
Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, who keeps photographers scampering to think up new angles, posed for her latest: a picture in bed. A week after an emergency appendectomy she gave cameramen a painless, luxurious stretch, announced that after another month's rest she would be strong enough to brave the mists of Niagara Falls to work on her next movie...
...idyl was interrupted for a while in 1944. At 53, ex-Soldier Dix was drafted into the Volkssturm for the last-ditch defense of the Reich. But his World War II service was brief and painless. "I was with my squad of ten other men near a little town on the Rhine. We were posted in a field. It was a warm spring afternoon. We all lay down in the grass and went to sleep The next thing we knew, there were some French African troops standing over us with machine guns in their hands. We just did what they...