Word: curely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play in Peoria. The United States is approaching zero population growth (ZPG), that is, when families average two children per couple, just enough to replace the parents when they die. The Bureau of the Census says the average now is under three and decreasing. Even if a cancer cure is found, or life expectancy extended, the United States with ZPG will never have the overpopulation Hersey dramatizes. It isn't New Haven, but New Delhi, that has to worry about a crowded world. In places like Calcutta, the overcrowding Hersey visualizes is a reality, but without the organization, acceptance...
...best-paying job. The doctor at the clinic to which she reluctantly reports diagnoses her fever as something more than a metaphor; it is a symptom of tuberculosis. Over the objections of husband and in-laws, she goes to the state-supported sanatorium in the mountains for a rest cure...
...feels obligated to justify a first-person narration with some explanation of how the words got onto the paper. This kind of feeling has afflicted other 20th century writers, and sometimes it leads to contrived situations. Take this one, for example: The Reverend Marshfield suffers from "distraction." As a cure, his bishop orders him to spend a month in the desert, atoning. But this being truly the latter age, ascetism is not what it once was, and Marshfield gets to expiate his sins in fairly comfortable surroundings--a motel, actually. He is forbidden serious "intrapersonal or doctrinal" conversation, non-escapist...
...demand, I cure you, than, as our Lord cursed the fig treat may you depart from this place forever sterile may your generation either at the roots, and a better...
...broccoli. Another shows a workable method of skinning tomatoes, which he adds to a "simple white sauce for a fish filet, making an economical and nutritious dish." For kitchen weepers, he presents a way of cutting onions without expending a tear. Some forthcoming Graham goodies include a curdle cure for hollandaise and a technique for cutting hamburger shrinkage by folding an ice cube frozen with soy sauce into the middle of a patty. Other Kerr culinary clues include tips on deep frying, the "nonstick pancake," selecting a minute steak that costs only a few cents more per serving than hamburger...