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Word: pills (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe I have a solution to most of the population explosion [Jan. 11]. It is taken by husbands 20 minutes before retiring, is inexpensive, readily available, and to my knowledge, conflicts with no religious restrictions. It is a sleeping pill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 8, 1960 | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

...would be interesting to see the picture were every couple required to take an oral fertility pill in order to bear children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 25, 1960 | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

Words v. Deeds. So far, birth control campaigns, even when given government support (as in India), have had a hard time of it. Birth control advocates and research scientists look ahead to "the pill" -the still-undiscovered oral contraceptive cheap enough to suit the pocketbooks of impoverished Latinos, Asians and Africans and simple enough to be understood by all. Resistance to the idea of birth control is often a complex of emotional, moral, philosophical and economic attitudes. In Latin America, the Philippines, South Viet Nam and Ceylon, the Roman Catholic prohibition of contraception is felt. India still echoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POPULATION: The Numbers Game | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

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