Word: intervallic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Euphemistically called "fertility awareness," the system was developed by a 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...
Carrying complaints to the point of disloyalty may be hard to imagine, but the CIA got a firm reminder that not all its ex-agents play by the old-boy-network rules. Last week Random House published Decent Interval, a 592-page book by Frank Snepp, 36, an eight-year...
Similarly, Woods may say hello to someone on a bus, but may not sit down to continue the conversation; that would be more than an incidental meeting. Woods may play golf, but only in a twosome, and he must keep a reasonable interval" in the clubhouse between himself and other...
How will it all end? "The last victor is always the one with the most resources," observes a diplomat in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. "The Somalis control the Ogaden, but how will they maintain it? The Somali people now think the W.S.L.F. is some kind of superman. There will...
"It has been a great lesson to me to know that in life it is the unexpected that happens. Sometimes it's tragic and sometimes it's happy like this time." --Leopold Stokowski, reuniting as guest conductor with the Philadelphia Orchestra after an embittered 19-year interval