Word: careful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three months; in more serious cases, convalescence lasts six months or more. Doctors' long-term advice to most recovered coronary patients includes regular-but not strenuous-exercise, abstinence from tobacco, dieting against excess weight, and, insofar as it is possible, freedom from emotional tension. Under modern medical care, 80% of all coronary thrombosis cases survive their first attack, and many of them live long afterward...
...religion: "We [Communists] remain atheist, and we do everything we can to liberate a certain part of the people from the opium attraction of religion which still exists. But every person can practice the religion that pleases him, and care is taken never to annoy priests. Now that Soviet power has become so great, most priests have stopped their opposition to the Soviet government." ¶ On German kirschwasser: "This stuff is for oxen. I never in my life drank anything that burned my throat so much...
...prevent war and even to outwit death; that is, The Company has figured it out. With its globe-circling arm of Underwriters, Actuaries, Claim Adjusters, Regional Directors and Expediters, The Company has figured out almost everything. Blue Plate Policy coupons provide for food; Blue Blanket coverage takes care of shelter, clothing and babies; the Blue Bolt "war and disaster complex of policies" insures against all misfortune-all except for the misfortune of being pronounced Class E and therefore "completely uninsurable." Most marvelous boon of all is the "Suspension Vaults." A policyholder stricken with "radiation" poisoning (a common ailment), or dying...
Stroud found a nest of newborn sparrows in a prison yard, took them to his lonely cell. The experience of taking care of the birds moved him, and he decided he would like to raise canaries. He painstakingly built a cage out of a soap box, using a razor blade and pieces of bottle glass as tools. Although he had gone to school only as far as the third grade, he now absorbed all that prison libraries could teach him about chemistry, biology, ornithology. Displaying heroic patience, he carried out thousands of experiments with homemade apparatus, found remedies for major...
...Masters warned that the existence of another House might one day lead to larger classes which would crowd the new facilities. "It is our hope that two new Houses would take care of the increase in enrollment which President Pusey predicted last spring," Taylor said...