Word: curely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after the Nazi conquest and (promoted to ambassador) shared in its tragic return. His reports, once prized for their wit, have recently been soberly serious. A philosophic democrat, MacVeagh has seen Greece, which gave the word democracy to the world, sick from within and under assault from without. To cure the inward sickness, MacVeagh holds emphatically, in his quiet voice and brilliantly phrased dispatches, that the U.S. must move in and virtually run the country to make its aid effective. Yet, with Byron, he has "dreamed that Greece might still be free," and striven with Byronic fervor to make...
...confused with osteopaths, who often have medical degrees and base their treatments on correcting faulty body structure) still work on Founder Palmer's theory that most human ills derive from "subluxations" (dislocations) of the spinal column. Their treatment: "adjustment" (manipulation) of the spine, offered as a cure-all for a wide range of ailments, from scarlet fever to stomach ulcers...
...Alexander Brunschwig, of the University of Chicago, specializes in operating on cancer patients given up as inoperable by other surgeons. His drastic operations, he admits, rarely cure, but they usually make the patient more comfortable, often prolong life for years. In a clinical report published last week (Radical Surgery in Advanced Abdominal Cancer; University of Chicago Press; $7.50), Dr. Brunschwig described "the most radical [successful] operation yet recorded...
...Prague last week the inveterate optimism of those who regard international sports as international cure-alls was justified for once. An Austrian ice hockey team accomplished what statesmen had tried in vain-to make the Czechs love their former masters...
Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association hurried to press a cautious, "preliminary" report by Dr. Wirtschafter and the treatment's co-discoverer, Dr. Rudolph Widmann. The detail that had roused the medical profession was that the treatment seemed to be something more than a possible cure for gangrene. It also opened the door to a brand-new attack on the whole range of such blood-vessel disorders as coronary thrombosis, angina pectoris, Buerger's disease, high blood pressure...