Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days, the government is relying instead on the cheaper intrauterine plastic loop. Though it is about the simplest and most economical contraceptive available to India, the coil-shaped device has given rise to a host of rumors, one of them a report that it gives the husband an electric shock. More than 1,000,000 women have been fitted with the loops at clinics. Another 1,780,000 Indians have voluntarily undergone sterilization (for payments of less than $4). Even the sum of these two figures leaves the country a long way from its goal of cutting the birth rate...
...application remain unknown. Luthiers have been experimenting with secret formulas for decades, but so far none has been able to match the resiliency, golden luster and lasting power of Stradivari's "pasta." Varnish, contends London Violin Dealer Desmond Hill, is all-important because "it acts as a shock absorber. If the finish is too hard, it makes the tone brittle, if too soft, it makes the tone soggy...
Exhaustive Detail. Long the subject of speculation across the U.S., the 1,200-page manuscript of the book has proved to be something of a shock to just about everyone. Re-creating the events on and after the day of the assassination in exhaustive detail and in sometimes mawkish language, it describes Jackie Kennedy's every thought and emotion after her husband's death with such fidelity that the Kennedys-who have not read it but are familiar with its contents-feel that it contains things far too personal to print. "That's all she has left...
...transmits both sides of any telephone conversation to a special receiver as far as 400 ft. away. Continental also offers a 4-in. dart transmitter that can be fired from a carbon-dioxide-powered dart gun into an area otherwise inaccessible to the bugger. Built to withstand the shock of impact, it will embed itself in a wall or tree, pick up nearby sound and radio it back over a range...
...reduce the heavy toll, the Council recommended that national groups be set up to help prevent accidents, improve emergency treatment, and conduct research into such fields as shock and trauma...