Word: curing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adjust their news to the idea that this defiance of the Court rests on the same grounds as that of many segregationists. Finally, if New Hampshire is not to repeat the story of Willard Uphaus, to its own national and perhaps international discredit, its leaders and people must cure themselves of their stultifying suspicion of the foreign and unfamiliar...
...later novels had some passages of surpassing brilliance-but the story Mailer wrote and lived was mostly a story of repeated failures. His first marriage ended in divorce. In Mexico he got on the marijuana kick; in Greenwich Village he took to Seconal and Benzedrine (he later managed to cure himself of dope). He became a fiery advocate of lost and leftist causes-an authority on hipsters, bebop, Marxism, existentialism. Once, in an excess of underdoggery, he wrote an article defending homosexualism (an idea that revolted him) for the deviate magazine...
...feeling that "adherence to the United Nations absolves us from further responsibility in the international order and that decisions made by the United Nations, regardless of their objective value, are always to be regarded as morally right." There is no need to wait for a mass movement to cure the "mental lethargy" of collectivism, said the bishops. "The heroes of our history have not been blind forces but stouthearted persons; our worthy national goals have been achieved not as a result of environment but by men who made their environment ... If our future is to be worthy of our past...
...complex prescription to cure the ailing New Haven Railroad-and other money-losing roads as well-was drafted last week for the Interstate Commerce Commission. Written by ICC Commissioner Charles A. Webb and Hearing Examiner Richard S. Ries, the prescription is aimed at curing the New Haven's steadily rising deficit (expected to hit $14.4 million this year), but some of its ingredients are bound to leave a bad taste in the mouth of everyone from New Haven President George Alpert to the extra engineer who goes along for a free ride on diesel runs...
...infusions of new industry. While they deserve a helping hand from the Government, chiefly in the form of loans and grants to encourage new plant building and new public facilities, it is a fact that Government help can do little, good unless depressed areas first go to work to cure their own problems. Many have already arrested the decline, even made healthy comebacks by aggressively working to attract industry, but others are so badly depressed that they lack even the "seed money" to make a fresh start...