Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Turner has also brought on needless complications by offering two different explanations for the trimming. He first argued that it was merely an effort to reduce the enlarged ranks caused by the war in Southeast Asia. But officers retort Schlesinger's reductions had done that. Next Turner contended that the U.S.'s technological capability for gathering intelligence had improved so much that far fewer field agents were needed...
Indeed one does, retort the advocates, of affirmative action. Says Vernon Jordan, executive director of the National Urban League: "Opponents of affirmative-action programs live in some kind of dream world where people truly advance on their merits and all is efficiently governed by a neutral merit system. That world does not exist. Merit is socially defined." Colleges, for example, have traditionally favored not only middle-class males but also sons of alumni. For all the progress in desegregation, blacks still must surmount a crushing residue of two centuries of discrimination in acquiring the tools and attitudes required to compete...
...Baugh, 32, of Boise, Idaho, achieved the distinction of becoming the Army's last draftee. While a member of the Idaho National Guard in 1970, Baugh was told to cut his long hair. His answer was to wear a short wig to company drills. The military's retort was to order him to active duty. For the past seven years, Baugh has been fighting the Army. This month he lost his last battle in a U.S. circuit court...
When one of the female jocks would make her case for women's sports, some all-knowing basketball stud was quick to retort, "But babe, can you jam?" And so knowing that there were no organized pro women's leagues, and confident that Jimmy Connors could wipe the baseline with Chris Evert, we male jocks simply pursued our daily practice routines while snickering at the women who were trying to do pushups on their field...