Word: careful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Malan's government did not seem to care unduly about the psychological effects of its actions. It was already working on the next phase of its plan: the abolition of Negro representation in South Africa's Assembly...
...such as are called for by the President's Commission on Higher Education) for still more greatly increased college enrollments. His remarks ended with a typical Gannon snapper: "Instead of accepting more & more as the number of applicants increase, we intend to screen our students with more & more care . . . Unless we have this type of aristocracy . . . our Jeffersonian democracy will soon be a Russian rubble heap...
...three boys didn't show up at their San Antonio high school that Monday. Their explanation: a few nights before they had been so severely paddled at a high-school fraternity initiation that they had been under a doctor's care...
...help keep the clinic going, he advertised, and that resulted in his being expelled in 1930 from the American Medical Association and the Chicago Medical Society, for "unethical" conduct. Organized medicine, Schmidt retorted, was fighting his plan for low-cost medical care. He was given a clean bill of professional health by half a dozen other medical societies, by Northwestern which kept him on the faculty, and by St. Luke's Hospital, where he was senior attending urologist. Today, he is generally credited with having fathered the laws for premarital and prenatal tests for syphilis...
When Disraeli caught a chill and took to his bed in 1881, Queen Victoria was deeply worried. She asked who was taking care of him and was told that Disraeli's doctor was a homeopath.* The Queen was even more worried; she suggested a consultation with regular doctors. But medical etiquette forbade any orthodox doctor working on a case with a homeopath. Eventually the Queen raised such a fuss that both schools of doctors got together long enough before Disraeli died to agree that he had bronchitis...