Word: heals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first two were failures because the scientists imitated nature too closely and made the artificial lens as thick as the ordinary lens. That, it turned out, was too strong. Now they make the lenses thinner. Another failure occurred with an enfeebled man of 75 whose wound did not heal. But Dr. Ridley reports that in 22 cases, the operation appears to be successful. One patient has worn his built-in lens for two years without mishap...
...which was once called isolationist, this week closed its books on history's greatest single act of international generosity: the Marshall Plan. In 45 months, ECA spent $12 billion-the equivalent of $80 apiece for every man, woman & child in the U.S.-to heal Europe's war wounds, to start up factories, and to rescue from fear, apathy and poverty millions of Europeans and Asians. Biggest beneficiaries: Britain, $2.8 billion,* France $2.3 billion, Germany and Italy $1.3 billion each. Tiny Holland-with an even $1 billion - got more than the whole of Asia...
...Crisis in the University (TIME, July 11, 1949) was a bold attempt to restore a sense of unity to higher education by restoring its sense of Christian purpose. Last week Britons were grappling with Sir Walter's latest work (Responsibility; Oxford University Press) -an equally bold attempt to heal the split in society's sense of moral judgment...
...body a patchwork of welts, Golden Boy was a slightly tarnished matinee idol. Carter had also taken a beating: a cut over his eye took seven stitches, and may keep him out of action for a year. The $32,000 purse, most lucrative of his obscure career, would help heal the wound. But more important to Jimmy Carter was his title. In his first defense of it, he had come through like a real champion...
Some suspected that the description might fit Harry Truman, in spite of all the denials. Truman admires and trusts Krock, and might conceivably be trying-out the back door-to persuade his party to drop the Fair Deal in exchange for a candidate who could win and who could heal the split with the Southern Democrats. Next-ranking suspect was Democratic Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, who dined with Krock at Washington's Carlton Hotel just before he went across the street to visit Ike at the Statler. Baruch categorically denied...