Word: painlessness
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...couldn't have ended any other way and Georgette (Friday's Child) Heyer's fans wouldn't want it to. Her so-called Regency novels (1811-1820), of which Arabella is the latest, are as slick, as painless and as inconsequential as the most languid hammock reader could wish, and they have helped to make her one of the bestselling writers in Britain today. Author Heyer has soaked up the speech, the manners, the pretentions and the social ambitions of her Regency smart set. She has been compared, say her publishers, to Jane Austen, and that...
Only a magician could have performed the feat that Harry Truman blithely promised the voters in his election campaign last fall. The President told farmers he would keep up their sky-high farm prices and he pledged consumers a painless cost of living. The man Harry Truman picked to do the trick was no magician, and not even a farmer. He was a bald, inconspicuous Colorado lawyer, Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan. Last week Brannan went before the House and Senate Agriculture Committees and solemnly pulled a rabbit out of his hat. Even as rabbits...
...bones the sufferings of his countrymen ; their son Antonio, an embittered ex-soldier who had welcomed the American soldiers but now hated them for their attentions to Italian women. It was a house where one could love or hate, but where no one could engage in the sort of painless barter Robert had hoped...
Early diagnosis is particularly important in the treatment of tuberculosis. Last week doctors were offered a new test which is painless, cheap and simple. "Plastotest" requires no hypodermic jab and no scratching to break the skin, needs no technical experts nor costly machinery. A preparation of tuberculin is applied with a toothpick to the surface of the skin, where it sticks like glue. If small blisters and redness appear within 24 hours, it indicates that the patient is or has been infected with tuberculosis...
...Trippe's world trading view, such mass tourism, besides being fun for the tourist and a source of profit for Pan American Airways, is also a painless means to a practical end. It is an ideal way of spreading U.S. dollars abroad, so that the world can pay for U.S. exports. Last year American tourists spent $850 million overseas. Trippe preaches that if such spending could be multiplied, it would take much of the cost of EGA and other world recovery programs off the taxpayer's back and strengthen the U.S. as a trading nation...