Word: harm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tonsils should never be removed just because they are large (no harm in that, and small, embedded ones may be worse), or because of frequent sore throats, says Dr. Lederer. The operation should be performed only if the tonsils have been "acutely and repeatedly" infected. Then it should be done in a hospital by a specialist. But nowadays, with the new antibiotics, serious infections starting in the tonsils should be few & far between. Says Dr. Lederer: "We certainly should expect the number of tonsillectomies to drop off dramatically and almost . . . completely...
After speaking to students of City College in Manhattan, Eleanor Roosevelt was asked for her opinion on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. Said she: the way the Senator from Wisconsin "has played on our fears" has done "infinite harm to freedom." In fact, said the former First Lady, he is "the greatest menace to freedom we have in this country...
...private schools harm public education? With a rather messy half nelson, the council scores a fall: "The cost of educating hundreds of thousands of students now in independent schools is met by their parents, who also pay taxes to support public schools . . . It is obvious that the cost of educating these children at public expense would overload many public school budgets as much as their extra numbers would congest schools already overcrowded and understaffed...
...York, there met Phyllis Isley, married her, lived in artistic poverty while appearing in Greenwich Village theatricals. In 1943, both got big breaks in Hollywood-he in Bataan, she (as Jennifer Jones) in The Song of Bernadette. In 1945, after waiting two years to avoid publicity that might harm Bernadette, Jennifer Jones divorced him, leaving him to carry what the columnists called "the biggest torch in Hollywood." He emerged from the Menninger psychiatric clinic in 1948 "a new man." A few days before his death, he completed (with Helen Hayes) My Son John, perhaps his best picture...
Since a public complaint might do me harm in other police states, such as Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, etc., please withhold my name...