Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Dag Hammarskjold returned from Beirut reporting "no foundation" to the government's charges of "mass infiltration" by the United Arab Republic and accordingly no need for a big U.N. police force to seal off Lebanon's frontiers, although the U.N. observers admitted that they had free access to only eleven of Lebanon's 172 miles of border with Syria. The U.S. Sixth Fleet stopped steaming off Lebanon's coast and sailed west to land its marines and sailors for July 4th weekend liberty in Athens and Nice. Handsome, white-haired President Camille Chamoun bluntly asked...
...physicians' medical care (except in university hospitals and a few private clinics) are among the nation's lowest-because of neglect. One big reason for such neglect, suggested Dr. McArthur, chairman of the A.M.A.'s section on general practice, is that smalltown G.P.s have limited access to specialists. And because each one feels that he "lives in a glass house," he hesitates to call in a small-town colleague...
...scraping before the imperialists in order to get some of their 'tainted goods.' How absurd that is! If we had such flexible spines, they would have bent in 1948 under the powerful pressure of the great propaganda machine turned on them by several countries." In an access of enthusiasm, the congress delegates broke into a song that rates high on the Belgrade Hit Parade. "The more lies, the more slanders," they sang, "the dearer Tito...
...wanted Los Angeles to grade and improve the land in Chavez Ravine and build access roads, and, what is more, he wanted the work done promptly. The Dodgers, then, would build a stadium. They would expect a couple of consecutive 99-year leases on the land at $1 a year, and they intended to pay no taxes. There were numerous other demands. But if the O'Malley ultimatum dismayed Mayor Poulson, he gave no sign. He simply took the paper back home and turned it over to the bright young men he has hired to mind the store...
...many a novelist has been quick to grasp, the physician's easy access to narcotics is often tragically hard to resist. In California alone, reports the Los Angeles County Medical Bulletin, the state Board of Medical Examiners must consider 50 to 60 cases of addiction or illegal personal use of drugs among doctors every year. Chief excuse offered by errant physicians: "Overwork and fatigue, usually attributed to the size of the practice and to night calls." They also plead such pressures as domestic difficulties and pain of a chronic disease or operation...