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Word: pills (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the Pill and abortion, pregnancy still automatically tends to follow fornication. Pregnancy itself is an uncharted condition. One valiant mom expected for 18 months. Once they are born, children are as precocious as the zombies in Village of the Damned. Overnight they turn into voting-age monsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sex and Suffering in the Afternoon | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...After a grinding schedule that included a 24-20 win over nationally ranked Michigan, the Flying Dutchmen, in the words of Tom Bixby, "wanted someone to beat on." The Crimson proved handy whipping boys but after their two convincing wins the 6-6 loss was not too bitter a pill to swallow...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Grapplers Win Two, Lose One, Trounced by Hofstra Dynasty | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

...reminiscences of President Kennedy, whom she adored and still mourns. In the hands of Playwright Patrick, those are still extremely poignant memories. Sparger (Don Parker) is a homosexual actor from the off-off-Broadway café scene, and he provides acerbic comic relief. Mark (Michael Sacks) is a pill-popping veteran of Viet Nam trying to sort out the dubious good from the known evil of the war. Rona (Kaiulani Lee) is the bruised child of Selma, Ala., and Woodstock, and Carla (Shirley Knight) is an ex-go-go dancer who wanted to go at least as far as Marilyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Scars of the '60s | 11/17/1975 | See Source »

...parents' home and into a world of casual employment and even more casual friendships. For a while, she shared a house on a lake with two young men; somewhere along the line, she began experimenting with drugs. Several friends describe her as an occasional marijuana user and frequent pill-popper, who took "uppers" and "downers" to suit her moods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: A Life in the Balance | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

...explored with him methods of drugging a man to make him incoherent. The three discussed placing on the steering wheel of the victim's car a drug that enters the body directly through the skin, but that idea was abandoned as too chancy. Then they considered slipping a pill or capsule filled with a hallucinogen into the victim's regular medicine bottles-but there was no telling when the pill would be taken. Finally, the three debated dropping a drug into the victim's drink at a cocktail party, but since Hunt knew that Anderson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLOTS: Not Poison, Just Some Drugs | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

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