Word: pill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What, specifically, can politicized women do? Some will be fighting for job equality (including pay), child-care centers or tax relief for mothers who have to work, and further liberalization of abortion laws, and safer means of contraception than the Pill. They will also pressure universities, still largely male sanctuaries, to admit women on an equal basis with men both as teachers and as graduate students. Sensibly, last week's Women's Caucus subordinated such specific, feminist aims in favor of such larger, humanistic goals as better housing and a national health-care system that might cut down...
...took over the Renown. It now appears that Hornblower both pushed Sawyer down the hatch and later cut his throat during the melee with the Spanish. It was all done, however, for the good of the ship and the British navy. *"I don't take my wine in pill form...
...fanned out through the downtown shopping area to make their purchases. Back in Dublin's Connolly Station a squad of uncomfortable-looking customs men, forewarned, awaited their return. Also on hand were 150 Lib supporters waving placards reading: WOMEN ARE BABY MACHINES! and I'M ON THE PILL-ARREST...
When the would-be smugglers emerged from the train, a customs officer raised his hand to halt the procession. One of the women cried, "Loose your contraceptives!" and a shower of condoms, pills, diaphragms, foams, intrauterine loops and spermicidal jellies fell at his feet. Some women tossed the contraceptives over customs officials' heads to friends. Others produced the pill, swallowed it, then challenged customs men: "Now confiscate that...
...leaders have long dreamed of producing "another nylon," but the company has introduced few notably profitable products in the past decade. Several that did appear turned out to be expensive failures. Corfam, the synthetic leather, is being phased out after an investment of $100 million. Other disappointments: an antiflu pill called Symmetrel and a venture into the production of photo film. Last week the board announced a decline in earnings from $93 million in the first quarter of 1970 to $74 million in the equivalent period this year...