Word: pills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President deaf to his impertinent insistence that the U.S. halt military aid to neutral India, got only silence from Catholic Kennedy when he asked for U.S. help in controlling Pakistan's soaring birth rate. (Said Ayub: "We want to be able to make 'em take a pill, then poof, that's that.") But Ayub did not hesitate to tell Kennedy exactly what he thought of Nehru ("People think he's thinking. Actually, he's just in a trance"), and dismissed SEATO as a weak-spined organization, daring only to "send telegrams back and forth...
...Jack Soble spoke, the haggard defendant, charged with conspiring to gather and transmit U.S. defense secrets-a crime punishable by death-looked away and reached for a pill. He is, his doctor says, dying of leukemia...
...talk-it-out method of treating mental illness is hard to apply on a big scale, the take-a-pill method, in conjunction with psychotherapy, is doing fine. At meetings of the American Psychiatric Association in Chicago, held separately from the psychoanalysts', 2,000 psychiatrists last week heard that since New York began intensive drug treatment with ataractics in 1956. the number of patients in its state mental hospitals has dropped by more than 4,000 (despite a 500,000 population spurt). Admissions, including readmissions, are up 5,000 a year, but discharges...
This gap between appearance and reality, pretension and performance plagued the Age of Reason (roughly 1657-1757) and made it an age of paradox. The age professed skepticism and credulously embraced charlatans like Count Cagliostro, who had a yellow pill that would keep one permanently young, à la Dorian Gray. The age prattled of liberty, but the man the intellectual French Encyclopedists hailed as a philosopher king, Frederick the Great, was described by one British observer as "the completest tyrant God ever made. I had rather be a post horse than his first Minister, or his brother, or his wife...
...present oral contraceptives require a prescription. They retailed at 55 cents a pill, but the price is expected steadily. All contraceptives are illegal in Massachusetts, reasons of health...