Word: curely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...silent." says Poudras, "but he is really in a state of grace." Powell still spends most evenings sitting quietly alone, smiling to himself, wrapped in a cocoon of benign silence. Yet to anyone who has seen him since he fled to Europe, he seems to have undergone a miracle cure. On good days now he even chats happily. For the first time in years, his message is hopeful: "Please tell everybody that Bud's O.K., and he's feeling fine and is ready to play...
CHET BAKER (Colpix), freshly returned from a dope cure in Europe, makes his first recording in five years and shows that he is coolly sure of himself and very jaunty (in Walkin'). He can also be as lyrical as anyone in jazz today. He says a lot in little, can sing like a flugelhorn (Whatever Possess'd Me) and make a flugelhorn sing (Soultrane...
...juices, and be concerned by the sharp taste of his "sour stomach." In most cases, this is a minor matter, and the result of gulping food while under emotional tension. A classic case is that of Wall Street brokers, who eat on their feet during midday trading. The cure is to stop eating, which is easy, and to calm down, which is not. Antacids may speed relief...
...French fries with catchup and a cucumber salad with vinegar dressing-provided only that he eats a little at a time and often. The tide has turned against the insipid Sippy diet of milk and light cream: doctors are beginning to find that for some ulcer patients this "cure" is worse than the disease-like bicarb it throws them far enough over on the alkaline side that they can develop alkalosis...
...dystrophies; it is also the most deadly. With rare exceptions it occurs only in boys, attacking them by age three or four and usually killing them before age 20. This type is transmitted by a defective gene on the female, or X, chromosome. There is no cure, and none in sight, for dystrophy of this type. But in many of these cases, Dr. Emery saw hope of prediction and of prevention through genetic counseling...