Word: spermatozoa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relatively simple operation in which a piece is cut out of the vas deferens, the duct through which male spermatozoa flow from the testes. It causes no change in the physiology of the sex act, merely ensuring that there is no sperm in the male ejaculation...
When Grindle, who claims to have "willed" all spermatozoa away, suspects his student is pregnant, he ships her off to Tibet. There she encounters a holy man "wearing a simple loincloth" and some unholy tourists. A number of American tourists were following him along, taking pictures of him, offering him money and bits of bread. He seemed quite unaware of their presence, however ... When a cute little girl of six was sent up to him by one of the mothers to get his autograph, he appeared not even to see her. This caused a certain amount of bitter feeling...
...Texaco salesman in Houston. Legend has it that he was tormented by a recurring nightmare in which he woke up screaming, "Bail out! Save the children!" (His wife says he slept like a log.) After his wife had a miscarriage, he was afraid radiation might have affected his spermatozoa. He began to drink heavily and pass bad checks. In 1950, he made a halfhearted attempt at suicide and was admitted to the VA hospital in Waco, Texas...
...gland -it is one of the clear, anatomical distinctions between the sexes. In childhood it serves no known purpose. In life's prime its role is obscure and minor: it secretes a fluid which mixes with the output of the testicles, apparently helps to increase the mobility of spermatozoa. In old age, when again it appears to be useless, the prostate is the site of ailments ranging from the trivial to cancer which may prove fatal...