Word: boon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Kennedy may come to see that confidence is the most valuable boon a President can confer upon the economy-far more valuable than the best-intentioned tinkerings. Failure to provide it could sabotage his economic programs, torpedo his campaign promise to "get this country moving again." And as a man who likes to read history books, Kennedy can hardly help recalling 1929 and its aftermath. The smashup of 1929, leading to the Great Depression, crushingly ended the rarely interrupted Republican dominance that began with Abraham Lincoln. For a proud Democratic President, it would be hard to imagine a fate...
...idea. Chilling the stomach checked both the flow of digestive juices and bleeding. Why not deepen the chilling to the freezing stage, knock out the stomach's acid factory more completely, and give the patient relief for months or years? The technique should then be a boon to the almost 90% of peptic ulcer cases whose ulcers are in the duodenum (the next lower unit of the digestive tract): cutting down the flow of corrosive juices at their source in the stomach itself would keep them from eating into any part of the lower intestinal wall...
...things irritate a woman more-or more frequently-than a run in her stocking. But women have been forced to live with their runs for the sake of fashion sheerness-and the perishability of hose is the boon of manufacturers. Runless stockings have been developed, but few women like the seams that come with them. Last week this feminine plague at last seemed on its way out. Two hosiery companies are racing neck and neck to be first on the market with stockings that are both seamless and runproof...
...basis for judging a technique as rational as this one is whether or not it works, and the kaleidoscope of feelings this quartet displayed showed how good a tool it can be, when performed accurately. Since a major problem for modern music is careful performance, this group is a boon...
Died. Harry F. Waters, 67. prolific inventor of food-packaging devices who gave the world the paper tea bag, called a boon by billions and "the mouse in the teacup" by Etiquette Expert Amy Vanderbilt; of a heart attack suffered aboard the Twentieth Century Limited; in Albany...