Word: pilling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...destroyed. He was having trouble sleeping. "I used to be able to put my head on a pillow and, bam, I'd sleep like a rock for eight hours," he said wanly. "But for the past year and a half, I've had to take a sleeping pill to get some sleep." His agony was palpable. Confessed Salazar: "I don't feel any different physically, but mentally there is something wrong...
Every man in the platoon was in thrall to Mommy dearest; at 31, Fred could not resist the pill-popping, unstable Ruth Coe, who was often his "date" at realty open houses. She also accompanied him on frequent hairstyling appointments. "If Kevin hesitated in the middle of a sentence," recalled the receptionist, "Mrs. Coe would fill in the word. They're that close!" Then, one evening, after a quarrel about his lack of accomplishment, Ruth vandalized Coe's car. "Don't let Son upset you," she once told Perham. "He's not worth it." Perham...
Princip swallowed his cyanide pill, but it did him little harm. Neither did the authorities who convicted him of murder but could not execute him because he was a minor. Sentenced to 20 years, he died of tuberculosis in prison in 1918. By then, the war that started with a punitive Austrian attack on Serbia had bled all of Europe white. But Princip's deed did finally achieve its purpose. In the redrawing of maps that followed the war, the Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved into fragments; both Serbia and Bosnia were included in the new state of Yugoslavia...
...rudimentary that pregnancies came annually. They were both painful (until chloroform appeared in 1847) and dangerous (childbed fever was not solved until the 1850s), but Charles Goodyear vulcanized rubber in 1839 and soon thereafter got his first patents on birth control devices. More than a century before the famous Pill, the sexual revolution inspired by contraception was under way. The cultural leaders preached against birth control, even prosecuted its advocates, but that only spread the news. Contraceptive devices sounded "perfectly revolting," as one California matron wrote to a friend, but "one must face anything rather than the inevitable results...
...threatened libel suit by Dr. Edward A. Kantor. Biographer C. David Heymann had portrayed the Beverly Hills physician as Hutton's "prematurely gray-haired" Dr. Feelgood, a trusted medical adviser since 1943. In fact, Kantor turned 14 that year, and he did not treat the alcohol-and pill-addicted heiress until...