Word: curely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long as foolish people with pains have hopes of feeling better, quacks and charlatans will flourish. Last week Associate Commissioner Charles W. Crawford described some of the cure-alls that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration has found on the U.S. market in the past year. Among them...
...apparatus for administering electric shock at home. Heart disease, paralysis, cancer, tuberculosis and polio were among the diseases it was alleged to "cure." It might, at that: its voltages could easily cause death...
When doctors first announced (in 1943) that penicillin would remove all signs of early syphilis in eight days, many a layman concluded that penicillin was a sure syphilis cure. But syphilologists, knowing the wily ways of the spirochete, were careful to use the word "cure" only in cautious quotation marks...
...California. 76-year-old Krikor Arakelian read the stories. Arakelian was the watermelon king of Southern California and the owner of Mission Bell wines. He was a millionaire many times over. But no amount of money seemed able to cure his son, a hopeless epileptic since his head was injured in an auto accident. Arakelian made up his mind to send for Avak. Last week the faith healer of Azerbaijan arrived at Los Angeles' municipal airport, dressed in the long robes of a Gregorian Communicant, with matted beard and shoulder-length hair framing his pallid face...
Reporters surrounded him. He was a little puzzled by the questions. What was so difficult to understand? God had given him the power to cure; he was using it. Avak removed his hood and hairnet, passed a comb through his tangled hair. Said he: "I think I can cure the younger Arakelian...