Word: painless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used to introduce a saline solution into the uterus, then to draw the liquid out. Cells from the uterine lining carried out in the solution can then be analyzed microscopically. Tested on 305 patients at the University of Chicago's Lying-in Hospital, the washer proved simple and painless enough to be used in a physician's office. In all but seven cases, the samples were adequate for testing...
...force up the market price of eggs by killing hens." Findley was particularly piqued that the bill singles out female chickens for liquidation. "The gals of Women's Lib," he told the House, "will surely ungirdle their sharpest clawings for those who do nothing -not even harmless, painless vasectomy-to the males, the perpetrators of production. Surely they will bare their beaks and demand roostercide instead of henocide...
...also true that most men are the world's worst cooks. Teaching a husband to cook, laudable though that feminist goal may be, can create frightening strains in a marriage-not to mention the gastrointestinal system. However, Suzanne Prescott, 29, a Chicago rock musician, has suggested a painless and sinisterly Skinnerian strategy for transforming husbands into expert meatloaf makers...
...week's events were acutely embarrassing to the British government. As Britain's M.P.s know, the failure of the Pearce Commission to complete its eight-week survey in Rhodesia will surely spell an end to the Tory government's dream of a relatively painless settlement with Rhodesia...
...Painless Way. Whether it is based on fact or not, the Nixon Administration has found the "understanding" useful. The supposed agreement has afforded the White House a politically painless way of gradually erasing what it regards as an unwise, unilateral promise to lay off North Viet Nam. Since 1969, when the White House began citing the understanding to justify quick, small-scale strikes on North Vietnamese antiaircraft sites that had fired at U.S. reconnaissance planes, the "protective reaction" franchise has been steadily broadened. By now, it has been stretched to the point where it can be invoked in almost...