Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within this carefully limited framework, the message proposed that the Federal Government should help combat the problems of 1) uneven distribution of medical facilities (only four or five hospital beds per 1,000 persons ip some states, with ten or eleven in others), and 2) high medical costs (some 10% of American families spend more than $500 a year for medical care, and the national average is $200). Said the message: "While continuing to reject Government regulation of medicine, we shall with vigor and imagination continously search out by appropriate means, recommend, and put into effect new methods of achieving...
...next day, Slade Cutter got Navy orders to go full speed astern. He had to endure the humiliation of going into the Pentagon pressroom and "leaking" the news that the Nautilus was indeed combat-worthy. When newsmen sniggered at his straight-faced efforts, Cutter said: "Well, that's the party line, anyway...
...consulted him only once-and that was on the wording of a Thanksgiving proclamation. But if he found the vice presidency dull, the rest of his life was not. He ran for President against Lincoln, splitting the Democratic vote and assuring the defeat of Stephen Douglas, later became a combat major general in the Confederacy, and then its Secretary of War. He refused to surrender, fled to Cuba, stole a ship, became a pirate, moved to London, then to Toronto, and died, with his citizenship rights unrestored, in his old Kentucky home. CJ Levi P. Morton (1889-93), a Vermont...
Peril from Tigers. During the first weeks of his life with the Reds, they made Leriche do chores such as carrying supplies for combat troops, but he had time (and was permitted) to watch the Viet Minh preparations for an assault on Moc-chau. The commanders built crude sand tables, then made their men practice the attack again and again. "Each soldier rehearsed his job 50 times, maybe 100 times. C'est formidable. When they attack they move like machines...
Broadly speaking, stress diseases are caused when the "combat mechanism" of the body goes into action under some shock, the thyroid demanding a "purposeless increase" in metabolic output, the pituitary sending ACTH flooding to the adrenals, and the blood pressure, blood salt and blood sugar increasing. Once stimulated by shock, the mechanism keeps on going. The human system is exhilarated, but badly unbalanced. Exhaustion usually follows, often with a dangerous lowering of the body's normal resistance to infection...