Word: cures
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some consumers, forsaking coffee altogether, are showing new interest in old substitutes such as Postum, the all-grain brew invented by C.W. Post in 1895 to cure "coffee nerves." Locally marketed versions, like Grandpa Knight's Cafe-Grano, an all-grain roast sold in the Cincinnati-Dayton area for $1.89 per Ib., are also in demand as replacements...
Todd's father, a bluff, plump man who worked in the upper echelons of Xerox, laughed at the idea. His son, he said, was no nut--there was nothing wrong with him that a few football games or maybe a girlfriend wouldn't cure, and besides, those things cost money, you know. Easier to just live through the rough times: no point in worrying about Todd's mood. Besides, his grades are fine--things can't be that...
...areas] to gain the support of the local tribesmen on the ground. Without that support, terrorists can't operate. You would not eliminate pressures from outside, but every country in the world copes with these. It's the terrorism within our country that we have got to cure...
...only partly attributable to intensive propaganda by such Laetrile advocates as the Committee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy and other right-wing organizations that employ films, pamphlets and evangelizing visits to cancer victims to promote Laetrile. More important is the fact that although doctors can often cure the disease - if it is caught early enough - the battle against cancer has been agonizingly slow. All too often, treatments are extremely expensive (the median cost of a cancer case was calculated in a 1973 study at $19,000), physically painful and, when surgery is required, sometimes permanently damaging. By contrast...
...report to WHO's annual meeting said the organization needed at least that amount to find and cure cases of the disease in Somalia, where a form of smallpox still lingers...