Word: curely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first named variety of apple in North America was Blaxton's Yellow Sweeting, introduced around 1640 by a clergyman, William Blaxton, at what is now the corner of Charles and Beacon streets in Boston. One variety of the handsome blue lobelia was prized by the Indians as a cure for syphilis - and bought for a pretty price by a gullible English nobleman. The colonizers were more astute about Solidago, or goldenrod, that "humble and glorious" wildflower, which they took home and improved and now sell back to Americans for fancy sums. Indeed, argues White, goldenrod, which has 54 native...
...trouble stems from the growing resistance of disease-causing microbes to antibiotics. By the 1970s, the trend had grown to alarming proportions. Penicillin, once a sure cure for most forms of venereal disease, in more and more cases turned out to be ineffective. When doctors tried alternative therapies, they discovered that some bacteria had resistance to several drugs...
...Painful "cure"for baldpates
Nearly 30 years ago, an ex-G.I. from The Bronx journeyed to Copenhagen to become blond Christine Jorgensen. Ever since, sex-change operations have been performed routinely as a cure for serious sexual identity problems. Males were treated with hormones that encouraged loss of facial hair and growth of breasts; subsequent surgery transformed the scrotum and penis into a functioning vagina. In females, hormones were given to develop masculine characteristics, followed by the implantation of an artificial phallus...
...settling instead for alternate lifestyles. So, in 1971, Meyer began keeping track of his patients' postoperative acceptance of their new gender, using such indicators as job placement, marital success, psychiatric status and police records. Concludes Meyer: the surgery "serves as a palliative measure ... [but] it does not cure what is essentially a psychiatric disturbance...