Word: curely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still uses uppers-legal ones when possible, she says-when she is on the road. "You have to face 20,000 people, and you can't just write off St. Louis because you're feeling low." But in the past year, running has become her cure-all and her calm-down...
Masturbation Cure. Women shed no tears over Celestine Doudet when she was tried in Paris in 1855 for beating five young girls, sisters-one to death. The children's father, a fashionable English physician named James Marsden, had put them in the Frenchwoman's charge so that she might cure them of masturbation-a practice that Victorians believed caused epilepsy, asthma, paralysis and madness. Doudet's qualifications for this task were obscure; she had previously been employed as a wardrobe mistress to Queen Victoria, who gave her a warm testimonial...
Item #2: Baseball star reveals unknown incurable disease: Harvard first baseman Peter Bannish disclosed today that he played all of last season while suffering from a sickness to which modern science has no cure...
...really his father as well, having undergone a sex change at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Poor Stony-suffering from a new version of that old dramatic ailment, the identity crisis-dreams of falling in love with a sensuous plant, which at least has roots. Wintermouth finds and loses the cure for cancer. He is instantaneously transformed from the world's hero into its fool for that carelessness, and he ends up with Hitler's love letters to Eva Braun, which he finds buried in the sand. Still, he says-in what seems to be Guare's message...
...offer no miracle cure," says Schlesinger. To the contrary, practically all of the elements likely to turn up in the new plan have been discussed-though, alas, not acted on-for years. Schlesinger's group already has general principles sketched out. It is clear that the policy will focus on what Washington has begun to call "the two Cs": conservation and coal. First, tough conservation measures must be taken so that the nation can buy time to develop well-considered alternatives to oil and gas as fuels. Next, a determined effort must be made to get many power plants...