Word: curely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cure. In Sydney, Australia, Dorothy Murphy, suing Leopold Lord for breach of promise, was awarded $1,500 damages when she testified that she had hiccupped for six months after he jilted...
...wife, a Communist for ten years, also quit the party. Said Hyde: "It became obvious to me that the movement for which I had fought and worked so long was destroying those very freedoms and decencies for which it claimed to be fighting. . . . Communism was incapable of providing a cure for an extremely sick world. My growing disillusionment led me to seek some other answer. . . . The time is ripe for large-scale resignations...
Rachmaninoff put the score aside, and for three years couldn't write a note. In despair he went to Dr. A. Dahl, who day after day, while Rachmaninoff slept in an armchair, repeated hypnotically, "You will begin to write." The cure finally took...
...Cure. "It is neither sense nor science to concentrate our thoughts and endeavors on the physical aspects of nature to the neglect of its spiritual or psychological aspects," writes Dr. Halliday; "it is by comprehension of these alone that man can consciously save himself from further social catastrophe and even destruction...
Consumer resistance to high prices was the chief cause of the biliousness. Yet most manufacturers did nothing to cure it by cutting prices even though hide prices are down 15 to 25% from last fall's peak. Instead, they cut production in hopes that shortages again would make prices more palatable. A few shoe men talked of price cuts-but only vaguely...