Word: painlessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cora had advertised that her treatment was painless, but a beauty shop operator from Columbus testified: "She put some liquid on my face, and it was just like liquid fire." Though no one testified to actual injury from Cora's treatment, doctors said in court that since it peels off the top layer of skin by a slow burn, the phenol formula would definitely do damage; it might also injure the kidneys...
Calories Don't Count, promised the book's catchy title, and overweight Americans looking for a painless way to reduce took the promise literally. They ran the book's sales to more than a million copies in less than a year. Last week, in commenting on a default decree, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration blasted the volume as full of false ideas, charged that it had been written and promoted to boost the sales of worthless capsules of safflower...
...most Du Pont stockholders, the method will be painless when it comes to taxes. Congress has specified that individual shareholders will not be required to pay tax on the G.M. stock unless they bought their Du Pont stock for less than the value of the G.M. shares they receive. Since Du Pont stock is now selling around $214, and the current market value of 1.37 G.M. shares is only $68.50, most Du Pont shareholders will...
Before 1945, Alabama required a year's residence. But in that year, the legislature eliminated the requirement, and the quickie and painless divorce has been a goldmine business ever since. In 1960, Alabama granted some 17,328 divorces (v. 9,274 for all Nevada. Reno included), and this year the total will be even higher. In fact, the state has won such repute as a divorce mill (as well as a place that goes easy on minor perjuries), that a group of embarrassed jurists has been trying vainly to get the old one-year, residency requirement reinstated...
...create this extension, Monro hopes to have freshman advisers also conduct informal, luncheon seminars, and he said he is looking for still other methods to increase student-faculty contact "in ways that are painless and pleasant to both." One possibility which has been suggested, he said, is that sections for Gen Ed courses be held within the five units wherever possible by resident fellows...