Word: darkest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clinical Heart Disease" Samuel A. Levene, Professor of Medicine, writes of coronary thrombosis that "there is no other condition in the practice of medicine in which it is so difficult to prognosticate... The physician should remain hopeful under the darkest circumstances and yet give a guarded prognosis when the progress seems most favorable...
...Paris the atmosphere was reminiscent of the bitter closing days of the Indo-China war. Editorialists summoned their darkest tones, politicians warned of "the line of last defense," headlines cried: TO LOSE ALGERIA IS TO LOSE FRANCE. Premier Guy Mollet, in the center of it all, havered uncomfortably. Once again irresolution was at the helm in France...
...prove their theory that tooth decay comes more from a soft diet than from starches or sugars (TIME, Aug. 6, 1951), Physician Hans H. Neumann and Dentist Nicholas A. Di Salvo of Columbia University betook themselves to Mexico, Guatemala and darkest Peru. They found whole tribes with virtually no cavities, though they lived on a poor diet heavy with carbohydrates. The researchers made their subjects chomp down on a dynamometer, found their bites much more powerful (166 to 184 Ibs.) than those of soft-dieted Americans (127 Ibs.). Their prescription: eat more hard food...
...relax), Britain's Dr. Grantly Dick Read had long had a nagging doubt. His theory and practice had been worked out with women in societies far removed from a state of nature. What of the women closest to nature? In 1953, at 63, Dr. Dick Read headed into darkest Africa to find...
...Polish ghetto. The Ingathering of the Exiles crammed the new republic with people from 70 lands, without mutual understanding, unable to speak to each other, refusing often to pray together. Half the population is now composed of Oriental Jews, many of them near-primitive savages from darkest Arabia who had never sat down to a table...