Word: sexual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fred] Allen had a terrible time getting the adjective 'saffron' on the air because [a censor] suspected it had sexual connotations. . . . Another time, Allen gagged that [a certain bride] could have found a better husband in a cemetery. [The censor] thought this might hurt the feelings of people who own and operate cemeteries...
...Rightly speaking," Gandhi answered, "the true purpose of marriage should be and is intimate friendship and companionship between man and woman. ... I may say that my wife and I tasted the real bliss of married life when we renounced sexual contact and that in the heyday of youth. It was then that our companionship blossomed and both of us were enabled to render real service to India and to humanity in general...
Gandhi, who has described himself as "a lustful but faithful husband" until he vowed complete celibacy at the age of 37, requires all married couples visiting his "hermitage" to practice his preaching of Brahmacharya (sexual continence) as a preparation for public service. But few of India's 389 millions, who produce approximately 18 million babies a year, have embraced his kind of marriage as a permanent thing...
...types of motivation the [strongest] is that associated with the true 'love of flying.' The pilot who has [it] is recognized by fellow flyers as being somewhat apart. They speak of him as being 'plane-crazy.' Not infrequently such an individual makes sexual analogies-with flying. The wife ... of such a man is truly an 'aviation widow...
...steps has been to bring cancer out of the back bedroom into the clinic. But it has been necessary to teach people that cancer is not directly transmitted from parent to child, and can be mentioned in newspaper obituaries without stigma; that it does not stem from alcoholic or sexual excesses; that it is no more contagious than a broken leg; that housewives cannot contract it (as a few seem to believe) by using aluminum cookers or electric refrigerators...