Word: curely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there was the vague feeling back in Washington, even in the White House, that none of this would cure the new malaise very much. At the Vail branch of the White House, Ron Nessen, the President's press secretary, attributed the problem to dog days, and indeed, Sirius the Dog Star, which governs this temperamental season in mythology, seemed to have an unusual hold on the affairs of state...
...Delacorte; $8.95), by California Psychiatrist Harold Bloomfield and two coauthors, is a more academic treatment of the movement. The book, currently No. 3 on hard-cover lists, makes the basic argument that 20 minutes of meditation every morning and evening can reduce stress, lower blood pressure, and even cure psychosomatic illnesses...
...past 18 months, federal planners have been wrestling with the problem of how to make the bankrupt Northeastern rail system once more efficient and profitable. In February, the U.S. Railway Association-a Government cure seeker created by the Regional Rail Reorganization Act-issued its preliminary plan for a Government-backed corporation that would consolidate about 15,000 miles of the old Penn Central and half a dozen other bankrupt lines. That plan was much criticized by politicians; New York Governor Hugh Carey called it "utterly unacceptable...
Modern Presidents are inundated with not only possible but impossible tasks; they are asked to cure, for every individual and the human race in general, all the ills that flesh is heir to. Being considered universal problem-solvers, they have become universal scapegoats. Their voices may sound across the nation and the world, but what they put forward will not impress a listener who feels that the speaker has failed to straighten out, as he should have done, the listener's own particular problems...
...arrived at Briggs' and my shack in Ketchum. The day dawned rainy and grey in Sun Valley. For the next five days it stayed rainy and grey. In a field in front of Fred's apartment, the elk head lies as Fred ponders how to cure...