Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faye Emerson Roosevelt was recovering nicely from a minor razor gash on her wrist (eight stitches were taken, but only for what her doc Lor called "esthetic" reasons) and a major attack of tabloid headlines. After the first front-page flurries about an attempt at suicide had subsided, she and Elliott told their story: she had really cut her wrist accidentally while reaching for some aspirin...
Early last year a team of chemists, biologists and veterinarians set out for Africa to attack the trypanosomes in their native stronghold. A single dose cured cattle infected with T. congolense and T. vivax, two worst forms of the disease. It also worked well against other forms in cattle, horses, dogs, hogs and camels. Healthy animals appear immunized against infection for as much as six months...
...nobody's surprise, U.S. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr's attack on Swiss Theologian Karl Barth for his speech before the World Council of Churches at Amsterdam (TIME, Nov. 8) got a prompt reply. Barth, Niebuhr had said, was preaching a dangerous doctrine, which, by concentrating on the Kingdom of God, made no provision for the tragic, practical decisions Christian men and Christian nations must make on the earthly plane. Earth's answer, published in the British fortnightly Christian News-Letter under the heading: "A Preliminary Reply to Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr," struck a sharp issue...
...when to seek medical advice . . . Cheap mass examinations of those who have no symptoms are foolish. If a chest examination of someone who feels well shows a suggestion of something wrong, there is always a temptation to do something about it. Over 20% of the population has had some attack of tuberculosis and recovered without knowing it. If they had been X-rayed at a particular time, some small sign would have shown up and all their social contacts might have been disturbed . . . Moreover, mass examinations give a false sense of security . . . mass examinations cannot be accurate...
Michael A. Sullivan, 59-year-old Cambridge councilman and long-time nemesis of Harvard undergraduates and officials, will be buried at Cambridge Cemetery this morning. Sullivan died Friday after a heart attack suffered New Year...