Word: painless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freedom-the freedom to buy whatever the heart desired "in this democracy of ours," especially the sponsor's cigarettes. The movie was so bad that audiences booed and jeered. Since then, industrial films, which are financed by corporations to make their special pitches, have become so slick and painless that at times audiences hardly realize they are getting some propaganda with the entertainment...
...Painless Extraction. In St. Louis, the Internal Revenue Office's 40 secretaries completed an etiquette course in which they learned to pronounce the names of VIPs. i.e., taxpayers, correctly, and with a "rising inflection as though you are asking a question...
...smallpox vaccination is a painless, one-shot affair. Nonetheless, it is necessary, since those who cannot produce a certificate vouching for their vaccination will find it difficult to persuade U.S. officials to allow them to re-enter the country...
...Israelite's keenest fillip comes from Golden's saucy good sense on issues affecting racial and religious minorities. Last summer, while the North Carolina legislature was concocting elaborate legal stratagems to preserve segregation in the public schools, Harry Golden devised a painless formula for desegregation, based on his observation that deep-seated racial prejudices disappear when Southerners stand up. Explaining his Golden Vertical Negro Plan in the Israelite, Golden deadpanned: "The South, voluntarily, has all but eliminated vertical segregation. The white and Negro stand at the same grocery and supermarket counters, deposit money at the same bank teller...
...fought for passage of the 1954 farm law that substituted semiflexible price supports for the Democrats' rigid supports, but agreed to limit the range of flexibility so that actual supports did not drop much. He once considered the soil bank a Democratic gimcrack, now embraces it as a painless way to cut surpluses. And in the 1958 budget he asked for an unprecedented $4.9 billion for agriculture, the largest farm outlay in U.S. history. Benson's vigorous program to sell off surpluses at home and abroad has worked; the surplus cutback augurs well for future farm stability; farm...