Word: curing
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...frankly, and was rewarded with rousing applause. Later, addressing a contingent from the American Association of University Professors, Kennedy said: "The Negroes in this country cannot be expected indefinitely to tolerate the injustices which flow from official and private racial discrimination. As years pass, resentment increases. The only cure for resentment is progress. I am obligated by my oath of office to uphold and enforce the law. If you were in my position, you could do no less than...
Especially in the House of Representatives, long a sacred cow pasture, the prospects for such substantial changes as these are not nearly as optimistic as they ought to be. The legislature's Republican caucus would not be altogether gratified by the enactment of bills which might prove an effective cure-all for Gov. Peabody's ailing prestige...
Once they have a clue to the cause of a disease, medical researchers often make steady progress in the search for a cure. But not in the case of lung cancer. Doctors have long been convinced that cigarette smoking is a major cause, Dr. Isidor S. Ravdin reminded a California seminar for science writers, but in the past decade the number of fatal cases of lung cancer has increased alarmingly. Death rates have shot up 73% in men and 18% in women. The death rates from other kinds of cancer have also increased-cancer of the kidney, 19% in males...
...Revolution, by Hannah Arendt. In a shrewd study, Historian Arendt examines the long-held notion that revolutions cure social ills, concludes that most of them do more harm than good...
Teen culture embraces all generations in Pasadena, and Novelist Carter's hero shows how painless is the cure for a small case of doubt in the full, rich, empty life. He is Decker Wells, 6 ft. 3 in. tall, a high school senior about to become a freshman at U.C.L.A.. where his major will be "kind of general, maybe I'll end up in business administration." With his fellows he stands "in a lump," distinguishable only by name, weight, hair coloring, and small variables within high-bracket Pasadena youth society...