Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disease that looks and acts like tuberculosis, but is something else. More disturbing still is the fact that the germ responsible for at least one type of the illness, formerly believed harmless, is now shown to be immune to at least two of the drugs most widely used to combat...
...Combat Loaded. In Houston, a bus station clerk caught nine-year-old Danny McElwee and his brother Victor,11, trying to run away from home, opened their bags, found: two baseballs, two gloves, a homemade butterfly net, Victor's butterfly collection, a jar of live caterpillars, no clothing...
...authority, a Treasury official, claimed that "something happened this year" and added that Harvard must be classified as a "penny area." To combat the deficiency, the Treasury has started to mint earlier than usual...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., '38, professor of History, urges a program of "qualitative" rather than "quantitative" liberalism to combat the "widespread internal anxiety and discontent" of American society in the May 3 issue of the Reporter, out today...
...some cases, labor unions have heightened the sense of impending crisis. The A.F.L.-C.I.O., which set out to combat racial discrimination as one of the prime aims of the unified labor movement, has offended many Southern unionists and unorganized workers by supporting integration. In Alabama and Tennessee angered locals are threatening to secede from parent unions, demand lily-white, "Anglo-Saxon" unions...