Word: care
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into one of the Government sanatoriums (3,324 beds for 75,000 tuberculous Portuguese), growing steadily weaker while indifferent functionaries of the Estado Novo shuffled his papers. Rashly João complained to a friend: "There is always plenty of money to finance processions, but to take care of the sick such as myself there never seems to be a penny...
Harvard has contracted to educate some 6000 veterans. It must realize that part of this responsibility includes expenditures that will insure the married veteran even a small part of the care lavished on his unmarried colleague...
...plot, Rattigan had dug out of the Royal Navy's sea chest an old skeleton (the notorious Archer-Shee case of 1908, in which a naval cadet was falsely convicted of theft), and dressed it with care. His characters spoke their usual brittle, japanned British, but the effect was biting satire, not light comedy. As the surprise wore off, Londoners decided that they liked their Rattigan serious as well as flippant...
...Bogomolets, the prophet of longevity, to be a thin, stooped, wizened and "incredibly wrinkled" man of 65. "Normally a man should live to the age of 150 years," twinkled Bogomolets. "That is, if he starts to use my serum when his connective tissues begin to deteriorate, and takes reasonable care of himself...
...popular Crooner Dick Haymes, who tears off a pretty love song with such little apparent effort that there's no good reason why he should be required to act at all; red-haired Maureen O'Hara, who photographs so beautifully in Technicolor that no one could possibly care a hang whether she acts...