Word: curely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the creation. Right before your eyes, Paramount Pictures will attempt, using a rare blend of ancient skills and modern moxie, to manufacture a blockbuster hit. The blockbuster has, for the last dozen years or so, been cherished as the Miracle Aid cure for an ailing film industry and, for the moment at least, Paramount is rapidly becoming known as blockbuster-broker No. 1. In the way that one picture often constitutes a Hollywood trend, two can make a reputation, and Paramount's current supremacy is based on a pair of recent box office-boggling...
Gomes reconsidered his plans, weighed his spiritual needs and doubts, and concluded that a year or two at divinity school might cure him. Still, he hesitated, reluctant to subject himself to pressures for a commitment, unwilling to join any assembly-line for ministers. Fortunately, one professor had an alternative: "Don't worry about that. I think you ought to go to Harvard Divinity School," he suggested. "There you are religious in spite of the place, not because of it." Lured by the additional incentives of Widener Library and a generous scholarship, Gomes applied and ventured into what others warned...
...inactivity. The press uses heroism to mean sensationalism, grandstanding. Real heroism lies in the courage of everyday life which some people find to rebuild this world despite the obstacles. Though no paper covered it, the heroism in the woman's response to the addict is the only cure to the fear in the younger girl's face...
...been insufficient effort to deal with either the physical conditions that cause angina pectoris or the life-style that eventually leads to it. "Taking medication, losing weight, giving up smoking and slowing down are unpleasant," Russek explains. "Most people would rather submit to an operation that promises to cure them quickly, even at the risk of death, than put up with medical management. Yet even after surgery these patients still need this kind of care." In fact, he suspects, some of the success of bypass surgery results from better medical management after the operation than the patient received before...
...years at the Air Force Academy in Colorado could not do: teach him to stand up straight. The curious, heels-down construction forces the wearer to lean backward more, and thus to tuck in the belly and bottom and straighten the spine. Some fanatic converts claim that Earth Shoes cure bunions and even stimulate blood circulation. Podiatrists have yet to weigh in with a verdict, but Earth Shoes seem far less dangerous than platforms, which have caused countless sprains and fractures. Most wearers admit, however, that the first few weeks can be uncomfortable. Earth Shoe rookies often complain of aching...