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Word: pubic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stephen loves Christine, in his fashion. He pampers his girls and introduces them to his randy friends because he likes being liked. His sin is in assuming, like nearly everyone who jestered near the thrones of power in Britain and America, that the games could be pubic without ever going public. Enter Profumo (Ian McKellen), who in his high-domed hairdo looks like a samurai of probity. Jack is an indiscretion waiting to happen. He has so little furtive pleasure to gain, and so much reputation to put at risk, that his dalliance has the lurid fatalism of a soap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Moll and Her Night Visitors | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...example, sought to escape the bashings of her husband Anthony by divorcing him and obtaining an order of protection. Ignoring the order, Anthony broke into his ex-wife's home last year and stabbed her with a hunting knife, leaving a scar that ran from her throat to her pubic bone. Police arrested him, but he soon got out on bail and resumed harassing April. Two months ago, Anthony shot his wife to death, then committed suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Beware Of Paper Tigers | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...about 1 1/2 in. in diameter, it fits snugly over the cervix, or neck of the uterus, and is held in place by suction. The diaphragm is bigger and more fragile. A thin rubber dome averaging about 3 in. wide, with a flexible rim, it is placed between the pubic bone and the vaginal wall and kept in place by tension. Both contraceptives are used with spermicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Comeback of A Contraceptive | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

Nader also pushed for a Harvard extension of MassPIRG, state branch of a worldwide system of student-run Pubic Interest Research Groups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nader Calls for Student Activism | 3/26/1987 | See Source »

...breasts, the sleeves are full." The image of a scarlet nun seems appropriate to her role in this strange new society. Once a month, during the Ceremony, Offred has sex with her Commander. She lies between the legs of the Commander's wife, "my head on her stomach, her pubic bone under the base of my skull, her thighs on either side of me." All three participants in this ritual are fully clothed. Offred knows that if a child is conceived and born healthy, not an Unbaby or a "shredder," the wife will raise it. She endures these ordeals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Repressions of a New Day the Handmaid's Tale | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

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