Word: curing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Philomena's saintly popularity soared with what seemed to be the miraculous cure of the dying Venerable Pauline-Marie Jaricot, French founder of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. Philomena was also one of the favorite saints of St. Jean Vianney (1786-1859), France's famed Curé d'Ars, who called her his "dear little saint" and his "agent in heaven." In recent times some 300,000 tourists have visited her shrine at Mugnano del Cardinale each year, and countless churches have been dedicated to her-more than 100 in the U.S. alone...
...Colbert?" asked Horvath. "You've got your head in the sand and your flanks exposed to attack. You do all your planning with one hand on the panic button and the other in the till." Countered Colbert: "Chrysler has no problem that increased sales wouldn't cure...
Like a surgeon replacing an ulcerated stomach with an artificial one, the Inner Belt must extract much from the entrails of Cambridge before it can effect a cure. In the course of the experiment, people, business, and the city will suffer heavily, with the possibility ever present that the scheme might fail...
...mercurial, at once cool and responsive woman, Elizabeth lost the use of her legs after the death of her father and then her sister, walks on crutches and awaits-or, as Freud suggests, looks forward to-a wheelchair. At first she is mockingly certain that he can find no cure where a shoal of specialists have failed. Then she warms to him until-sympathizing, badgering, cajoling, but endlessly probing her mind-he probes too far; for she, meanwhile-talking, laughing, sparring, flirting, recollecting-blurts out too much. She then backs away, but at length her guilty feelings are tormentedly rooted...
Since osteopathy was founded by an M.D. named Andrew T. Still in 1874, it has steadily moved away from Still's reliance on the manipulation of bones, muscles and ligaments as a cure for all manner of aches and agues. The Lightning Bone Setter, as Still was known, thought that "the human engine is God's medical drugstore," but the average osteopath today prescribes more drugs for his patient than the average M.D. and uses musculoskeletal therapy as only an adjunct to surgery, X rays, serums...