Word: curing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question bothering Congress ' as it adjourned for Easter vacation: Do the homefolks want a tax cut as an attempt to cure the recession? Pollster Sam Lubell got home before the Congressmen to report that the homefolks and Congress are in wide disagreement on what the recession means, how bad it is, and how it should be cured. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The People...
...Republican congressional leaders had barely drawn their chairs up to the President's desk for their weekly White House legislative conference last week when Dwight Eisenhower issued a warning. The warning: go slow on bills designed to cure the recession with heavy spending; the Democrats are trying to spend too much too soon. Senate Minority Leader William Fife Knowland thought he knew where to begin the slowdown, went back to the Capitol to take aim on a Democratic special: the $1 billion Community Facilities bill designed to pump 3½% loans into worthy town and city public-works projects...
...during which Soviet researchers devoted the bulk of their effort to treating disease, especially emotional disorders, with prolonged sleep. This has not paid off too well, the anonymous authors of the plan conceded. Prolonged, drug-induced sleep "cannot be used as a universal therapeutic measure," partly because sometimes the cure is worse than the disease-it causes fever or anemia...
...cannot expect to cure such lopsided standards just by giving teachers the pay they deserve, building the schools we need, and ordering up more science courses. [But] a few important steps can be taken by state and local authorities. Most of our state teachers' colleges should be abolished as such and converted into liberal-arts colleges, with subordinate education departments. There must also be some drastic upgrading of curriculum requirements...
Like most Hollywood stars, he is thoroughly pampered. Last fall when he caught a cold, he was shipped to Palm Springs for the cure. His manners are perfect. When the Fury staff gave a set party recently, Fury roamed politely from group to group, nibbled at a bowlful of carrots and celery and never took a drink. More alert than some of the actors he has to work with, he can master a routine after only two or three run-throughs. For TV Fury has had to kick a club out of a villain's hand while running near...