Word: painlessness
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...most painless methods of helping out the charity is to drop a few coins in the box provided at the Harvard Trust Company when paying one's term bill, it was pointed out.--"A quarter or so doesn't seem like much when you've just been relieved of two or three hundred dollars...
TIME is, and always has been, a newsmagazine for readers of discriminating tastes -to the older readers, a source of news analysis and comment, and to the students, a source of painless education in matters of current interest. Above all, however, I believe that TIME is a public service, which is why I write this particular letter...
...views are at present in general agreement with those of the majority of the American people, whose views, by democratic principle, must be accepted as sovereign. But he asks, in accordance with this self-asserted divinity, that opposition (such as the HSU) be eliminated--as "termites". After which painless extermination it is hard to see how the free discussion essential to democracy would exist. On what basis could Franklin D. Roosevelt or William M. Wood claim then to represent the beliefs of a majority of the people, since without question of or vote on an issue no estimate of public...
...person in 'four can sit down in a dentist's chair, hypnotize himself, tell himself he will feel no pain in his jaws, snap out of the trance, then be drilled into at painless length. Such posthypnotic anesthesia can be localized at will, lasts perhaps two hours, can be renewed. Warns Salter: "One must be careful not to misuse his autohypnotic ability to mask physical ailments which need a physician's care." But he recommends the technique for incurable cancer agonies...
...result has been consternation in the anti-war camp. The ranks of the faithful have been serried by the honeyed arguments which present the War To Come as an exciting adventure. The roscate prospect of a quick and decisive victory over Japan and a paralysis of Germany by a painless conquest has made a good interventionist out of many a former advocate of peace...