Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...malevolent. His throat was inflamed, the television lights bothered him, and he was in no condition to testify further, his lawyer declared. Mild-mannered but firm, Kefauver insisted he should try to answer a few questions. Rasped Costello: "I want to testify truthfully and my mind don't function . . . With all due respect for the Senators-I have an awful lot of respect for them-I am not going to answer another question ... I am going to walk...
...eight states,* their graduates may now prescribe drugs and perform surgery, as well as practice the "manipulation" which is the keynote of their science. The main trouble has been the osteopath's emphasis on manipulation, a technique designed to maintain the normal circulation of blood and proper nerve function, which osteopaths regard as basic to all health. Thus, many M.D.s persist in regarding osteopathy as little better than chiropractic, whose practitioners claim that illness springs from maladjustment of the spinal column. The American Medical Association still holds it unethical for an M.D. to refer his patients to an osteopath...
Come, Creation Current. Freud is merely Wharton's departure point. Before George is through with his intellectual face-lift he has rubbed shoulders with Newton, Einstein, Wilhelm (The Function of the Orgasm) Reich, Posture-Pundit F. Matthias Alexander. He has Browsed about among brain waves, cellular division, extrasensory perception, precognition. He has seen God as Whitehead and Jeans imagined him, and he can swallow without a qualm such strange phrases as "psychic penicillin" and "mattergy" (Wharton's word for interchangeable matter and energy...
...Koestler-controlled puppets in a grim ideological allegory which takes for granted a war between Communism and the West, preaches the unoriginal warning that to defeat Russia, the West must find a more appealing faith than Marxism. For disillusioned intellectuals of Koestler's type, democracy as a function of liberty is unintelligible, and liberty itself a hopeless unknown...
...Bingham's uncompromising stand in favor of amateurism also stemmed from this belief that college athletics exist to fill an educational function. It athletics exist to educate the participating student, he felt, then colleges should let the students play, instead of fielding a professional team whose sole function was to make money...