Word: defections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...destruction of the skin surface by sandpaper abrasion is carried too deeply, the regenerative tissue will be destroyed and primary healing will be prevented. This will result in unsightly scars which may be more deforming than the original defect...
Political Liability. The reasons for Acheson's troubles lay in part in politics, in part in his own personality. Unlike some of his predecessors, Dean Acheson has no political support in his own right; this might not be a fatal defect, but it did not help to rally Democratic Congressmen to his support. Nor had he come into office -like Hull, Byrnes or Marshall-with a public reputation outside the Department. He had no close friends in Congress and he has made none in his 14 months as Secretary. His learning, his wit and his lucidity are admired...
...long war against the white plague, medicine's two most useful search tools have had a grave defect. Chest X rays and the tuberculin skin test both indicate whether the patient has ever had tuberculosis, but the skin test does not show-and X rays show only imperfectly -whether the disease is still active. Last week, doctors all over the U.S. were calling New York for details of a new, simple test which indicates how active the tubercle bacilli are in the patient's system at the time the test is made...