Word: painlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Officer Gardner did not agree. Mr. Pavlides and his $600 worth of equipment were removed to the police station, where he was charged with illegal possession of novocaine and a hypodermic, and bail set at $500. Though Mr. Gorgak admitted that the treatment had been painless, and that his teeth looked good, he did not plan to pay Mr. Pavlides anything, after all the fuss. "I should pay him nothing," Mr. Gorgak said "-the worry and the bother it cost...
...that 4,500 had been fired that day. The sudden shock of this news stirred angry questions to which all U.S. labor wanted an answer: Was this to be the pattern of cutbacks and reconversion? Where were Washington's well-laid (or at least well-trumpeted) plans for painless transition to peacetime production...
Each person is given a simple physical examination before donating blood, but after the painless process the donor receives refreshments. The entire appointment consumes only three-quarters of an hour...
Cambridge day in the Boston Red cross center is every Friday. However, appointments can be made any day between 8 o'clock in the morning and 10 in the evening. The process is absolutely painless and takes only half an hour. The present drive is primarily intended to get new donors to contribute to the blood bank. Navy men can give their blood directly through Navy facilities at Harvard...
...practice, did not want the new job. But when St. Louis newspapers screamed their editorial heads off ("An affront to thousands," said the Post-Dispatch), he determined to get it. He did, after having been investigated from hell to breakfast. Collector Bob Hannegan tried to make tax-paying as painless as possible: he eliminated long waiting lines, instructed his clerks in the rudiments of courtesy. He went to night school to study taxation...