Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Israelis back home shared in the excitement. During an hour-long broadcast by Israel's Armed Forces Radio, listeners had the chance to phone in questions for the network's correspondents in Cairo. One Israeli woman wanted a description of Egyptian fashions. A listener from Haifa asked about poverty in Egypt and was told by his countryman on the scene: "There are some depressing sights here, but there have been a lot of improvements as well...
Trading rhythm for awareness t do you call people who use the rhythm method of birth control?" went the old joke. The snap retort: "Parents." That cynical humor was based on unhappy experience. The rhythm method, in which a woman keeps track of her menstrual cycle on the calendar to determine the time of ovulation and hence of maximum fertility, proved to be only about 60% effective. Now the Department of Health, Education and Welfare is bankrolling a $1.4 million study, involving 800 California couples, to test the effectiveness of a new, natural birth control system that may be more...
...husband-and-wife team of Australian physicians, Evelyn and John Billings. It depends upon observing changes in the consistency of vaginal fluids. In the first days after menstruation, the vagina feels dry because of a decline in hormone production, a sensation that can be confirmed by the woman's examining finger. This is the first "safe" period. Within a few days, as the estrogen levels rise, the mucus feels tacky and appears cloudy and the fertile period begins. Then, at the estrogen peak, the mucus becomes smooth, slippery and stretchable like raw egg white. This condition-which occurs within...
...Some 2,000 broadcast preachers, those who have taken their Gospel from tent to tube and also reach 114 million radio listeners, will hold their annual convention in Washington, B.C., next month. Among the speakers will be Anita Bryant, just named "Most Admired Woman" by 22% of 11,530 voters in the annual Good Housekeeping poll, and Marabel (Total Woman) Morgan. As if to emphasize the extraordinary range...
Such reticence makes Adams' Eliza Hamilton Quarles a pallid, rather bloodless character. As a woman who came of age 20 years ago, Eliza is well versed in the arts of discretion and coping. She has to be. Her sexually ambivalent husband killed himself after becoming keen on a beautiful boy, leaving her with a baby daughter and an unfulfilled life. Eliza has little instinct for what her mother Josephine calls the "social realities." Josephine is formidable: a successful writer with another daughter and a number of former husbands left in or under the dust. She is also a hardheaded...