Word: heals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voice our hope and our belief that we can help to heal this divided world. Thus may the nations cease to live in trembling before the menace of force. Thus may the weight of fear and the weight of arms be taken from the burdened shoulders of mankind. This, nothing less, is the labor to which we are called and our strength dedicated. And so the prayer of our people carries far beyond our own frontiers to the wide world of our duty and our destiny...
...doctors generally obey the injunction, "Physician, heal thyself." A.M.A. statisticians found that among 204,450 M.D.s followed for three years, there were 6% fewer deaths than in the general population. Despite physicians' exposure to infectious diseases, their death rates from influenza, pneumonia and tuberculosis were about half the national average. They had 7% fewer deaths from cancer, but 35% more from diabetes, and after 60, slightly more from heart disease...
...speaker admitted that modern religion is frequently a faith of symbols, and doubted that a symbol would heal a man's wounds. "If God is a symbol," he continued, then religion is child's play...
...crossroads of the world, the Middle East, where whole civilizations meet. Ancient animosities flare anew. . . In such a critical situation we cannot expect to erase suddenly the bitter heritage of the ages. We can-we must -and we shall-go on striving to do all in our power to heal old wounds, rather than let them re-open into bloodshed. We can-and we do-use the full moral power of America to direct the purposes of all nations away from conflict and towards concord...
...tissue from Angelina's own thigh. Such a knee joint is flexible but not very stable. To make sure that Angelina would not fall in a heap when she tried to walk, the surgeons cut through the bone of the left knee, straightened it, then let it heal in the extended position. They used traction and casts on her hips, made new joints for her elbows. Angelina's muscles, atrophied from disuse, were strengthened by exercises in the swimming pool (the buoyancy of water neutralizes the weight of the limbs and makes motion easier...