Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though chemists are eagerly seeking a synthetic that will have the advantages but not the feminizing disadvantages of the natural estrogen, Drs. Marmorston and Kuzma see no need to wait for this millennium. They feel much good can be done with the currently available estrogens (marketed under different names by a dozen U.S. drug companies). Even on prescription, the low-dosage tablets should not cost more than a nickel...
...religious movement. The natives killed all their pigs-principal sources of food and symbol of social position-in the belief that after three days of darkness, "Great Pigs" would appear from the sky. Imitation radio antennas made of rope and bamboo were set up to receive news of the millennium, when black skins would turn white and all the harsh demands of life would miraculously disappear...
With a muffler round my throat, shielding myself with the palm of my hand, I call out in the courtyard: "What millennium are we celebrating here...
...relations. On the other hand, we might find it useful to bargain hard about recognition of Communist China as the mainland regime, making this bargain a part of a larger deal. But recognition as a unilateral act on our part is no panacea and will bring no millennium...
...firm's profits will eventually come from rentals, make it immune to ups and downs in the market for new building. Says Norman Tishman: "When the day comes that we don't care whether we make a sale or not we will have reached our millennium...