Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be Khrushchev's greatest triumph. It spreads discontent, unrest, antagonism and hostility. It isn't even subliminal-its nonlinear." Speaker Stevenson suggested that women use the chemise in a dressed-up version of the gimmick from Aristophanes' Lysistrata, in which Greek women go on a sex strike until husbands give up warring: "Let women say-peace, or the sack...
Since the Adventists made up 8.8% of the total, and were comparable in age, sex, occupations, residence and other key characteristics, they might have been expected to be afflicted by disease in the same proportion. Not so, Drs. Wynder and Lemon found. Items: ¶Against an expected ten cases of lung cancer among Adventists, there was only one, a man who died of lung cancer in 1955. He had smoked a pack a day for 25 to 30 years before joining the church in 1941, then had sworn off. (As a former metal worker, he may have been exposed...
...With the help of an estimated 1,250,000 British readers, Bond has boosted Creator Fleming high on the bestseller lists and into the gunsights of outraged critics. They blast him as a kind of Mickey Spillane in gentleman's clothing, his books as "a cunning mixture of sex, sadism and money snobbery" and "a bad symptom of the present state of civilization in this country...
...home of Singer Junie Jacques, he does his job so thoroughly that he winds up with a well-documented story of how a recording star is made. Everything falls into place. The greasy-haired idol of the sloppy-soxers gets into the book for good reason; the sex is there for more than the leers. Even the lunatic brother in the barred room upstairs finally makes sense...
...Gioconda Smile, Huxley's most famous story, is the best. His hero, Mr. Hutton, is clever, covered in tweed and money troubles, able to explain everything about everything except his own sex life. Sex, typically, is represented by Doris, a lower-class ball of margarine-and-fun; also typically, the hero's wife is a virtuous bore with a distressing number of ailments. Huxley writes of women with the ruminative repulsion of a male spider half-digested in mid-honeymoon. When Mrs. Hutton is poisoned, it looks like Hutton's work. Actually another Huxley horror woman...