Word: painless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the past year, the Vatican announced, the 80-year-old Pope received a million people in audiences, delivered more than 200 major speeches and radio addresses, not to mention minor messages and talks. His visitors comprised all sorts, conditions and faiths. Before 700 gynecologists the Pope discussed painless childbirth; he lectured racing drivers and members of an Italian automobile club on politeness; he received Germany's Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Otto Dibelius and U.S. Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss, the workers of Lombardy, the Roman nobility, 360 U.S. servicemen from NATO, and officials of the U.N. Office of Public...
Ever aware of the necessity to make taxpaying as painless as possible,* the I.R.S. also announced a new timesaving device. Taxpayers need no longer make out their checks to "District Director of Internal Revenue." Suggests the bureau: just write "Internal Revenue Service," and save untold molecules...
...rate, the end is relatively painless this way. The Class of 1960 will never know what it's missing, while Mr. von Stade and the rest of us will always have our memories...
...Hostess-with-the-Mostes' Perle Mesta turned up as a guest traveloguist at the Woman's National Democratic Club, startled the ladies with a tale of a "birth house" she saw in Russia in 1953. Perle's theory: the Soviets brainwash expectant mothers to achieve painless childbirth. In the maternity center she had observed 20 women, "none in pain. They took one or two deep breaths and the child was born." Added Perle: "They used the same brainwash for the mothers that they used for the war prisoners and soldiers [see SCIENCE...
...singled out for especial attack the Administration's method of handling foreign affairs, an approach he termed "sloganeering." He attacked this approach as characterized by statements such as "the painless liberation of the satellites;'...'the art of going to the brink;' and the 'Reds...