Word: painlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patients appreciated first of all was relative freedom from pain and fever. Then they were relieved to find that they did not need to make that dreaded trip to the operating room for skin grafting. What little grafting they needed was done at the bedside and was virtually painless, even without anesthesia. Finally, doctors and patients alike could watch the wounds heal with a minimum of scarring (except where the burn had penetrated deep into the flesh) or deformities...
...earlier proposals that the world return to the gold standard, French Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing last week announced that France would go back to gold all by itself. Beginning immediately, said Giscard, France will settle all its foreign deficits by paying in gold-a fairly painless move in view of the fact that France has no deficits. More ominously for the U.S. and Britain, he called on the West's major nations to make "a solemn and unequivocal declaration" that from now on they too would settle their deficits in gold instead of in dollars...
...violence, poll rigging, boycotting and threats. Any Nigerian who still felt like hailing his own dear native land would have to be quick about it: Nigeria was perilously close to a political breakup. "If Nigeria must disintegrate, then in the name of God, let the operation be short and painless," mourned President Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe in a nationwide radio broadcast, calling on politicians to "summon a round-table conference to decide how our national assets should be divided." Continued Zik: "Should the politicians fail to heed this warning, then I venture the prediction that the experience of the Congo will...
...delightful ways in which they can do it. At the Emporium, San Francisco's largest department store, salesclerks have standing orders to encourage each customer who presents cash -which seems to lower one's status in many big stores-to open a charge account. To show how painless borrowing can be, a Los Angeles finance company runs a TV commercial of a man speaking into a pay telephone: "I wanted to ask, could I borrow" At that point, money pours out of the phone, filling the booth...
...combines the shallower features of a dramatic reading and a TV documentary. To cover the presidential span from Washington through Wilson, scenes and episodes have to be scissored to candid-camera snipshots. While painless history is the mood, the recurring theme, insofar as there is one, is that sorrow, great loneliness and sometimes tragedy are the permanent occupants of the house on Pennsylvania Avenue...