Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...candidates had ever dared to ignore them. As long as one party was on the stump, the opposition could not afford to be silent. Even Franklin Roosevelt, confident as ever in 1944, became so alarmed by the possible inroads of the Dewey attack, and the whispers about his health, that he hustled out of Washington for his famed 51-mile ride through New York City in a drenching October rain...
Ninety-eight percent of you will wear dark gray flannel trousers between ten o'clock in the morning and one o'clock at night. That is, you will unless a nationally famous fashion authority called General Hershey decides you ought to wear light khaki trousers and a nationally famous health expert called General Hershey feels you ought to wear them starting at six in the morning instead of ten. If that happens, none of my information applies. It's all based on having ninety-eight percent in gray flannels...
...troops while the housecleaning was in progress; she even purged three elevator men. In recent weeks, Communist big shots have toppled into jail like so many drunks on Saturday night; Ana has had to transform two theaters into prisons. Among those arrested: beautiful Florica Bagdasar, Minister of Public Health; General Michael Lascar of Pauker's own Tudor Vladimirescu division; General Constantin Ionescu, chief of the General Staff; Constantin Doncea, deputy mayor of Bucharest, colonel in the Red army, member of the Communist Central Committee, and Pauker's old comrade. Said she: "Doncea fell into petty bourgeois habits...
...their hands of the atom bomb: its threatened misuse they regard as a purely political matter and out of their control. But science willingly accepts responsibility for another "chain reaction": the frightening, snowballing increase of the human population has been brought about by science's contribution to human health and fertility...
...greatest present danger from science-induced increase in population is in the Orient. ". . . Relatively inexpensive health services [have reduced] death from epidemic diseases, even though the level of living . . . rose very little...