Word: beecher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Visions of notecards and Harriet Beecher Stowe danced through my head...
...President also called attention to a just released antiabortion film, The Silent Scream, a startling 28-minute documentary that shows ultrasound images of a twelve-week-old fetus being aborted. Activists predict the film will become a high-technology Uncle Tom's Cabin, arousing the public just as Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 antislavery novel ignited the abolitionist movement. Declared Reagan: "It's been said that if every member of Congress could see that film, they would move quickly to end the tragedy of abortion." The producer, American Portrait Films of Anaheim, Calif., plans to mail the movie...
...often magnified because it is interpreted as "a signal of the disease having recurred, or some terrible complication setting in, or worse, that you are dying." Hope and encouragement can, on the other hand, make pain seem less than it is. During World War II, pioneer Pain Researcher Henry Beecher found that soldiers wounded during the bloody battle at Anzio needed far less morphine than did civilians with similar wounds. The presumed reason, now known as the "Anzio effect," was that for civilians the wounds were a source of anxiety; for soldiers they meant going home...
Several studies have documented the efficacy of placebos. In 1955, Harvard Researcher Beecher found that sugar pills work one-third of the time in treating conditions ranging from headache and seasickness to wound pain. Levine and Fields of U.C.S.F. have reported that a placebo was capable of mimicking the effect of four to six milligrams of morphine, a mild dose, in patients suffering the pain of tooth extractions. U.C.S.F. researchers have also shown that the placebo effect is partly due to the stimulation of the body's endorphin system. When the action of endorphins is inhibited (by using...
...been told just last week I couldn't bring any 'B' team players because it was a championship tournament," he said. "Then I come here and (tournament director) Midge Beecher says it has to be a unanimous vote of all the coaches for this to be a championship tournament...