Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three to four seconds and up to ten or twelve seconds of "agonized physical effort." ∙RESOLUTION. After an unusually intense orgasm, this phase may drop a woman into deep sleep within a minute or two. ("Postorgasmic sleep" had previously been regarded as a male characteristic.) The measles-like rash fades, the engorged vessels of the pelvis and breasts relax to permit the resumption of normal blood flow, and the vagina subsides into a state that facilitates the movement of sperm to ovum for conception...
...insurance companies would like to forget the past year. The Watts riots cost them $44 million in damage claims. Windstorms in Belgium, fires in the Philippines and a rash of burglaries in Switzerland drained additional huge sums. Then there was Hurricane Betsy, which did an estimated $750 million worth of damage, bringing on the worst single losses in insurance history...
...debate over the Viet Nam war has produced a rash of newsletters, proclamations and manifestoes, most of which are forgotten almost as soon as they are written. Two new magazines devoted to the subject, however, seem determined to last as long as the war. Viet-Report, a monthly, stands foursquare against U.S. policy in Viet Nam; Vietnam Perspectives, a bimonthly, generally backs it. The magazines agree on hardly anything, not even basic facts. "Communism is the only regime capable of saving Asia from anarchy, misery and extortion," says a writer in Viet-Report. Replies a contributor to Perspectives: "Communism...
...offense to defense with the return of platoon football this season. Signal caller for the defensive secondary, he led the Crimson in pass interceptions with five, and handled 16 punt returns. He made several spot appearances as an offensive halfback late in the season when the Crimson suffered a rash of injuries at that post...
...bonding a semitransparent Japanese print over a polka-dot crepe, thus allowing the polkas to show through the print. It is experimenting with scratchy materials such as fiber glass and burlap, which can be made wearable by bonding to a smooth inner skin. Also looming is a new rash of reversibles. Because bonding makes two-faced suits and coats possible, designers may soon be turning themselves inside out to give customers two costumes in one. Instead of going home to change, the day may come when a businessman can arrive at work in a grey worsted, leave in a black...