Word: exert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Adlai Stevenson's recent complaint of the effect of mass media on the American electorate during the past Presidential campaign has a tinge of sour grapes to it, it is worth studying. He fears that television and radio exert an unhealthy influence on American thinking, in that they tend to reduce the People to a mass, prone to the fallacies of a collective mind...
...stroke victims as in coronary artery disease, said Dr. Wright. A stroke may either precede or follow a heart attack: the two are often associated, and the same patient is likely to have atherosclerosis in both cerebral and coronary arteries. As in heart disease, female sex hormones seem to exert a protective effect (reflected in the relative immunity of premenopausal women), but they cannot be given to men without feminizing them. Needed: a synthetic hormone that affords protection without feminization. Several laboratories are trying to produce...
...needed, and even to reinforce the U.S. Air Force (if called upon) in a strategic bombing northward over the Black Sea to Moscow. It is uniquely fitted to move in on crises ranging from local riot to local war without setting off a big global bang. "We can exert flexible force tailored to fit any situation," says Vice Admiral Charles Randall ("Cat") Brown, 57, the weathered combat-carrier veteran who has commanded the Sixth Fleet since last August. "We can raise our voice without shouting. And without firing a shot we can create terrific repercussions...
...President's energy has been greatly sapped by his illnesses, but it is not only reason for his failure to exert political pressure. In foreign trade, after asking for a long-range reciprocal trade program, he agreed to an ineffective one-year compromise. Similarly, when Republican Congressmen killed a public housing bill, the enacting of which he had termed a "moral obligation," the President said nothing...
...diseases, finally become vegetables who have to be diapered and tube-fed and, in the phrase of Philadelphia's Dr. Edward L. Bortz, 60, live as "chemical Methuselahs," a burden to themselves and society? If Bortz and like-minded medicos have their way, the profession of medicine must exert itself so that men and women can go through their eighth, ninth or even tenth decades still hale and hearty, until eventually they die from a swift and general collapse of the body's metabolic processes...