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Word: curely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moreover, although Kissinger originally supported the cruise missile as a bargaining chip in arms negotiations, he now sees it as a Pentagon fixation, a nostrum advanced by the generals, in the senior official's facetious words, "as a cure for everything from cancer to the common cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Call to Slow the Costly Race | 2/16/1976 | See Source »

...practice to cover my entire body, forehead to toes, with Vaseline," she reveals in a new biography, Doris Day, Her Own Story, by A.E. Hotchner. "I then put on a flannel nightgown and lightweight socks to cover my feet and go to sleep like that." The gooey cure poses some problems. She cautions: "If you're sleeping with a man, husband or otherwise, you are not a very appetizing number in this condition, and it's best to be in a separate bed on this occasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 19, 1976 | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

Equus. Peter Shaffer's powerful exploration of madness gets a fine production here, with stand-out performances by Dai Bradley as a boy who goes around blinding horses and Brian Bedford as the cynical psychiatrist who tries to cure him. At the Wilbur Theatre, 252 Tremont Street, through February 7. Performances every evening at 8 p.m., matinees Wednesday and Saturday...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: THE STAGE | 1/15/1976 | See Source »

...strike a responsive chord in most audiences. McMurphy's other chief preoccupation is sex. There is a young boy in the ward named Billy Bibbit who has never had sex and has, apparently, been driven to psychosis and suicide attempts by a repressive mother. His case is the one cure that McMurphy attempts with "alternate psychology." He brings a whore into the ward and pushes Billy into a room with her for the night. In the morning, Billy's stutter is gone. The incident is typical of the instant cure approach to mental health that Forman is purveying. A good...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Off the Bus, Off the Wall | 1/14/1976 | See Source »

...Harvard doctors using part of a $23 million grant from the Monsanto Chemical Co. report they've made no progress toward a cancer cure. "However," says Dr. Judah Folkman, "we've discovered a great aerosol oven cleaner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1976: You, Too, Are Spiro Pavlovich | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

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