Word: curing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...results so far have done more to confirm the theory than to cure patients, for it has been tried only on poor risks. But, says Dr. Atkins, "even though we need to try it on other kinds of patients, we think that we are on to something, and we are going to pursue the idea further...
...Although the clergyman doesn't set out to cure and the psychiatrist doesn't set out to save, they both want to help the individual to make a better adaptation to himself and his environment," he went...
McNamara's plan is a bold attempt to cure a basic weakness in U.S. fighting strength that has existed since 1947, when the Air Force was set up as a separate service. Without its own aircraft, the Army became dependent upon the Air Force for transportation to the fighting front and close tactical support when it got there. But the Army and the Air Force all too often failed to work well together; air-ground teamwork sagged badly, despite the bloody lesson of World War II that the rifleman needed help from the fighter-bomber. Unable to count...
...second corruption Niebuhr discussed was "fanaticism"--regarding as true for all time theories which have only a limited application. The only cure for his, he felt, was to open all facets of society to criticism from its members...
Istina runs away and comes back, attempts suicide, emerges occasionally into the blinding sunlight of sanity, then plunges again into the pit. She believes there can never be any cure, because what the mentally ill need is "a swifter warmth than most people, even lovers, are prepared to give." The medical staff decides that Istina should have a frontal lobotomy. With the feeling that her personality has been condemned like a slum dwelling, she fearfully awaits the surgeon's scalpel and the terrible peace of mindlessness. But one doctor says no. "I don't want you changed...