Word: safe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Casual Use. Most fertility experts insist that the drugs are indeed safe -if they are used with care and discretion. Unfortunately, says Manhattan Gynecologist Edward Stim, who rarely prescribes the drugs, they are sometimes given on a casual, "Why not give it a try?" basis. Clomid, a synthetic hormone-like drug, seems to work by stimulating the pituitary gland to release hormones that help to ripen the ovum. Pergonal, a hormonal extract from the urine of postmenopausal women, primes the ovaries so that another hormone -human chorionic gonadotropin or HCG-can ensure the release of the ovum. Neither treatment should...
...people each with an equal right to political asylum. Some should be denied the security and moral sanction of asylum--secret police who staffed the South Vietnamese torture establishment, guarded the tiger cages and carried out the Phoenix program of assassinations. America has no responsibility to provide a safe haven for these people, and we are in no position ourselves to undertake to rehabilitate them...
...relentlessly denounced the Nazis from the pulpit until his arrest in 1944. After the war, Mindszenty became primate of Hungary and by 1948 was leading opposition to the Communist regime's plans to nationalize Church-operated schools and set up a Hungarian Church independent of-Rome. Offered as safe conduct out of Hungary by the government. Mindszenty refused, declaring. "God has ordained my fate and I give myself into his hands." Soon after he was arrested and tortured for 29 days before he finally "confessed" to trumped-up charges of treason and other crimes...
...missiles, and we were prepared to be shot out of the sky. As I turned around to see who was aboard, Buu Vien, the South Vietnamese Interior Minister, smiled and gave a thumbs-up signal. Forty minutes later we were aboard the U.S.S. Denver, a landing-platform dock, and safe...
...unless he had an "American connection "-a relative who was a U.S. citizen or an American friend who was willing to guarantee a job in the U.S. or financial support. Rather than fight those odds, many Vietnamese were resigned to staying. Some were looking for a safe place for their families in case Saigon was shelled. Others were preparing to raise white flags when the Communists came. Still others, however, were desperately trying to beat the odds and find a way out-even some with no apparent reason for being panicky. Some glimpses of the people who were being left...