Word: curely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America to the Cosmopolitan woman of the 1970s. Although they have a flair for interesting detail, they don't offer enough rigorous evidence to qualify as scholarly literature. Tending to linger over obvious cases of misguided science like the gory methods doctors used in the 19th century to 'cure' their patients or the moral weaknesses of contemporary pop psychology, the authors gloss over some of the more complex issues...
...crossing the Atlantic in three hours, as Michael Lappin predicted. And as David Scatter speculated, "Men may even walk on the moon." Marion Speich fantasized that there would be pushbutton telephones. Ah, but those that dreamed more down-to-earth dreams, how little they knew. "There might be a cure for cancer," thought Gail Lewis. And warmer winters in Buffalo were the vain hope of a boy named Francis...
...welfare administrators point out, the new program is responding quickly to more and more abuse cases. But the case workers, drowning in individual woe, do not find much personal reassurance in statistics. Nor do they have much faith in the capability of most of the social means available to cure repetitive cruelty to children. As a group, child defenders seem to be afflicted, in fact, by what is, or used to be, a most un-American emotion, a tormenting sense of the ultimate futility of even their most constructive efforts...
Wimpisinger is famous for his belief that "there's nothing wrong with the labor movement that a few retirements wouldn't cure." Both Wurf and Wimpisinger will speak to the study group later this fall...
...told Adams House students the cause of the smell. A notice in the dining hall says that the authorities are working hard to cure the remaining problem, and dining hall director Robert T. Martin said yesterday. "When the odor's gone, then we'll be satisfied...