Word: painlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, declared last night that selection of a new Indian prime minister will be "as orderly and painless as the transition from Kennedy to Johnson...
Equally important, unlike some of the more complex X-ray methods, ultrasound diagnosis is completely painless and does not require even a local anesthetic. The simpler machines used in many procedures are portable and can be taken to the patient's bedside or to the emergency room. The cost to the hospital is about the same as for X-ray machines, from $3,500 to $15,000, depending on purpose and complexity. Cost to the patient is about the same as for X rays...
...this painless revolution, this inevitable trend to coeducation, is not to be merely smiled at. An institution of higher education cannot seriously make a claim for greatness unless it recognizes both sexes as worth educating. It is increasingly evident that the best schools in the United States are such places as Berkeley, Stanford. Reed, Swarthmore, Columbia, the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago, and Oberlin -- rather than Yale, Princeton, Amherst, Dartmouth, Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Wellesley and Vassar...
...Somewhere Eric had procured some photographic developer, a compound more than fifty per cent potas. sium cyanide. The children had been found dead in Eric's parked car, and there was ample evidence that, in their case, at least, the popular belief that cyanide of potassium causes quick and painless death was untrue...
Potential piercees often fear the actual piercing operation, but it is done skillfully, it is really quite painless because of the lack of sensibility in the ear lobes. There are three main schools of piercing, which differ considerably in price and aftereffects: the antiseptic, the abortion and the sadomasochistic...