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...there is a rush of cases. Or he may keep the patient a couple of days longer; his interviews are more searching, and he may have time to treat moderately severe cases with a "truth drug" and let the patient act out the battle experiences and emotions which bedevil him. Finally, there is the Eighth Army's hospital in Seoul, camouflaged under the name of a "holding company." Even there, patients from the front lines stay only a few days. If the psychiatrists are satisfied that a man cannot be fixed up then & there, they order him evacuated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Psychiatry Up Front | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...Prime Minister David Lloyd George proffered personal honors; Weizmann graciously declined and said: "There is nothing I want for myself . . . I would like you to do something for my people." He got the Balfour Declaration, which promised the Jews a national home in Palestine-a promise that was to bedevil British consciences for a generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Man from Motol | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

With that assurance, Tate &. Lyle went ahead with a new slogan to bedevil the Labor government. Beginning this week, its packages will carry a cartoon showing "Mr. Cube" pointing to sugar pouring from a gaping hole in a sugar box. The caption: "Nationalization will make a hole in your pocket and a hole in my packet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Sugar Slogans | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Late subsistence checks will not bedevil the 3,00 veterans who pass through Mem Hall's portals today, if the Counsellor for Veterans office is successful in pursuing the plan of operations it announced last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Veterans Office Chief Acts to Expedite Fall Subsistence Payments | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Late subsistence checks will not bedevil the 450 "new" veterans who register today and tomorrow, if the Counsellor for Veterans office is successful in pursuing the plan of operations it, announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vets' Office Staff Acts to Expedite Fall Term Checks | 9/18/1947 | See Source »

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