Word: painlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confession would be a relatively painless gesture for the USSR and a matter of national pride for the Poles...
MYTH Death by guillotine was quick and painless...
...more defense spending, unlimited imported gewgaws and privatization of the obligations of community. Even as the nation's economy retreated in the face of the Japanese challenge, Reaganite gospel clung to the illusion that the cavalry would ride to the rescue in the last reel in the form of painless economic growth. "Maybe," muses a former White House adviser, "it is impossible in our time for a President to be both inspirational and candid with the people...
There is no painless way out of this bind. Arms control is a fiscal wash for the short term: verification costs money, and so will additional weapons systems required to replace those being scrapped. But Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who is trying to pep up a stagnating economy, seems to be casting about for a way to cut Soviet military spending. He has talked about a shift in the U.S.S.R.'s military doctrine from offense to defense. That implies restructuring the Soviet armed forces, making them adequate to defend the U.S.S.R. but not to launch an offensive...
...behind the table and manipulated by the facile hands of a master magician: James ("the Amazing") Randi, 59, conjurer, showman, crusader and America's most implacable foe of flummery. The props and the techniques are those used by the so-called psychic surgeons of the Philippines, who promise miraculous, painless, lifesaving surgery to lure desperately ill people to their clinics. But what the sufferers get is sleight of hand, not surgery, and Randi's goal is to spread that message. "These people go to the Philippines," he explains, "they spend their money, and they return home, in most cases...