Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that a slight danger may be risked, even if the only good that results is pleasure or relaxation (e.g., horseback riding is permissible, although there is a remote possibility that the rider may be thrown and killed). Therefore, moderate cigarette smoking is not sinful, unless for special reasons a doctor forbids it, while immoderate smoking...
Sitting motionless and staring at TV, long feared by physicians as a danger to the eyes, is also a threat to the circulation. So warned Philadelphia's Dr. Meyer Naide in the A.M.A. Journal last week. Internist Naide cited three patients (one a doctor) who had had severe blood clots in leg veins or arteries, requiring hospitalization and treatment with anticlotting drugs. Dr. Naide's prescription: take a "seventh-inning stretch" by getting up and moving around at least once an hour at TV seances, and for women, take off girdles, which can stop circulation in the thighs...
...little man." But last week, with a new election three weeks off, Politician Houde had changed his mind. Just as a boom got rolling to return him as mayor of Canada's biggest city (and the second largest French-speaking city in the world), Houde suddenly ("My doctor recommended . . .") backed out. Stronger than the doctor's advice. Montreal guessed, was a poll showing "little" Jean Drapeau, 41, running ahead of Houde...
...already hard-beset mother was caught between the doctor's strict orders that the child be kept out of doors and the rector's badgering insistence that he go to school, Sunday school and church. The climax of childhood comes with Sean being caned at school and rebelliously striking back...
...Last Bridge. Europe's high-powered Maria Schell, as a German doctor torn between Hitler's legions, to which she belongs, and Tito's partisans, who impress her into their service (TIME, Sept...