Word: cures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more important domestic economic legislation has come before the Congress in 15 years," the President of the U.S. told the nation last week. He was referring, in a televised talk, to the $11.1 billion tax-cut bill. And to hear him describe it, the measure was the cure for everything except maybe halitosis and warts...
...past, the say has always been resoundingly negative. Though Queen Victoria liked the notion of a tunnel as a potential cure for her seasickness, she found it "very objectionable" in principle. In the 1880s, when an early tunnel project actually bored two miles into the chalk near Dover, the Sunday Times worried that "We should have an amount of fraternizing between the discontented denizens of the great cities . . . which would yield very unsatisfactory results on this side of the Channel...
...Accommodation. Common folk still sought a king's touch as the cure for scrofula, still believed that the twitching of a hazel twig betrayed the nearness of criminals, still looked to omens and cabalistic signs as a guide to the future. The Swedish poet Georg Stiernhielm was accused of witchcraft for burning a peasant's beard with a magnifying glass, and witches would continue to stalk the lands of Europe for as long as King Louis lived (Durant reports that in Scotland the last one was sent to the stake in 1722). But at the same time, Hooke...
...same rooms as recent smallpox cases. Among 1,126 similar contacts who did not get the drug, there were 78 cases of smallpox and twelve deaths. The drug, N-methylisatin beta-thiosemi-carbazone, has no U.S. trade name, though Wellcome Laboratories has labeled it 33T57. It is no cure for smallpox and no substitute for vaccination, but should prove valuable in helping to prevent the spread of smallpox among the unvaccinated or those who have been improperly vaccinated...
...fragment of bone, or meat or morals, or disease or propensities or accomplishments, or what not. And I don't say but that I feel well enough, I feel better than I would if I was dead. I reckon." These words seem appropriate also: "They say they can cure any ailment, and they do seem to do it; but why should a patient come all the way here? Why shouldn't he do these things at home and save the money? No disease would stay with a person who treated it like that." Of course. Mark Twain...