Word: cures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...produce itself wants to die. "The problem today is not bacteria, but to control or inhibit the enzyme activity by which fresh food ripens and then becomes rotten." Satisfied that modern techniques of refrigeration and decontamination are more than equal to handling harmful bacteria, Kutty went to work to cure fresh food's tendency toward self-destruction...
Emphasizing that marriage is no quick cure or therapy, Smith pointed out that people approach marriage with "the unfinished tasks of childhood," their personalities encumbered by "all the trivia and deformation of twenty years of living...
...drags her on it too. But they soon fall off, and he keeps falling until he hits bottom-one day he wakes up in a straitjacket. The minute he gets out of it he joins Alcoholics Anonymous, but she goes right on drinking. In horror he understands that the cure will be almost worse than the disease, that in order to give up the booze he will have to give up his wife...
...Delinquency isn't like the medical problem of isolating one type of germ to cure the disease," commented Dr. Milton F. Shore of the Judge Baker Guidance Center in Newton. "Psychiatrists have gone into slums and ignored the social problems," while sociologists have forgotten about individuals...
...prophets saw these incidents as symptoms; the disease was the corrupt state of Israel. Their cure was angry eloquence. "To us," Heschel writes, "a single act of injustice-cheating in business, exploitation of the poor-is slight; to the prophets, a disaster. To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world...