Word: cures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when, after so many perfect crossings (and despite the eternal watchfullness of the Navigators), a particularly malicious iceberg struck Titanic; even then the trust of the passengers was not in vain. For the powerful ship was hardly damaged by the blow, and the passengers, who (to be twice cure) had calmly boarded the life he were easily rescued...
Trouble is that plastic chopsticks, austerity weddings and import restrictions cannot cure South Korea's most deep-rooted troubles: it is overpopulated, under-industrialized, short on natural resources, but has an overabundance of sapping responsibilities, such as the need to keep a standing army of 600,000 for a population of 25 million...
...initial shock of discovering the squalor in India seems to have obscured the original purpose of the "pilgrimage;" Mr. Koestler ends up explaining what should be done to cure the ills of India and completely abandons the possibility that the country might have some lesson to offer the West. Having thus disposed of the total of Indian culture in 162 pages, the "pilgrim" is ready for his journey to Japan...
...Cure the Cure. Proposals offered to cure false cures...
...sometimes, thin and overdrawn, the poor child would come home from work in the whee hours of the morning with a wicked case of "the mean reds." For this condition, a sort of moral hangover, there was only one cure. She would take a cab to Tiffany's jewelry store and lay her head against the elegant little show windows. That ice felt so good...