Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such disaster. Physician Still proclaimed: "I believe that the Maker of man has deposited in the human body drugs in abundance to cure all infirmities . . . All the remedies necessary to health are compounded within the human body." To get the human drug factory working at peak efficiency, Still prescribed lavish doses of spinal manipulation to preserve "structural integrity." For generations, osteopaths faithfully followed Still in emphasis on manipulation, de-emphasis on drugs...
...made into a suit. The hotel rooms were a great convenience, and so were the dining facilities at the hotels. These gifts were hard to refuse, partly because of friendship, partly because, as a careful man with his own dollar, Adams could not bring himself to refuse the lavish insistence of a big spender. And when Bernie Goldfine asked Adams to look into his troubles with federal agencies, Adams, a man of status, cheerfully obliged...
...return was only the kind of help one friend would render another. Says one of his closest Boston friends: "He's a name dropper and a Scotch drinker, and he has a weakness of talking too much, dropping too many names and things." By last weekend his lavish hand and careless tongue had dropped considerably the name of the best of his friends, Sherman Adams...
Most TV critics have groused for months over the dreariness of this summer's prospective fare. The economics of the television industry dictate that it should not lavish big budgets on programing when many regular viewers are presumed to be out of range. And, more than most set-sitters like to believe, cost really does determine program quality. It still takes money to buy talent...
...that young O'Connor once spent two years near Boulogne with a French family before Mother was able to raise the money to fetch him back. A few years later he was handed over permanently to a guardian-an atheist who wanted "something, as we say, to 'lavish his love upon.' " O'Connor embraced "bohemianism. surrealism and D. H. Lawrence." Between a weakness for Communism, a yen for "snatches of Nietzsche," and the desire to be both "a Messiah" and a wolf, he turned into a fantastic "actor" who studied his various faces in the mirror...