Word: pills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lively magazine called De Nieuwe Linie (The New Frontier). Owned by Catholic laymen but numbering three Jesuits among its editors, the magazine has within the past two years become one of the most provocative in Europe. It has run articles discussing the moral licitness of the birth-control pill for Catholics* and has suggested a change in church rules limiting mixed marriages. Last February two priests used its pages to question clerical celibacy. A month later, a Catholic layman raised questions about the doctrine of transubstantiation, which holds that the bread and wine change into Christ's body...
...local beauty comes to Glas with a problem: her clergyman husband keeps insisting on his connubial rights, even though her heart belongs to another. That other, she intimates, is Glas. The doctor sees his duty. He must rescue the lady from rape. One afternoon. Glas slips a potassium cyanide pill into the clergyman's Vichy water. But the man with nerve enough to murder lacks the will to make off with the widow...
...junta would permit Souvanna to remain in office and that the coalition government would continue-though slightly enlarged and altered to meet the rightist demands for "greater stability." He did not explain just what alterations he had in mind. That decision having been reached, Kouprasith gulped a sleeping pill, and Siho went off to the Green Latrine nightclub to relax with a pair of lissome chippies...
...pills are supposed to be taken every 24 hours. If a woman forgets to take hers at the usually recommended dinner hour, she has about twelve hours of grace; most authorities agree that she will be protected if she goes pill-less for no more than 36 hours...
Soon, the oral-contraceptive market will be crammed with pills from more manufacturers, some of them to be taken on a divided schedule called "sequential therapy." This system requires taking an estrogen pill for 16 days, then a progestin pill for five days. Its proponents claim that it comes closer to the natural physiological hormone cycle. Mead, Johnson & Co. already has an application before FDA asking approval of sequential-therapy pills compounded of ingredients bought from British Drug Houses, Ltd. And Indianapolis' Eli Lilly & Co., working with Syntex, is on the same tack. Michigan's Upjohn...