Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Road Back. McKeown's was an old-fashioned kind of evangelical attack, but one from which the army has never wavered. From its years of experience on the seamy side of life, the army thinks that it knows as much about drunkenness as any other organization. It maintains that evangelism can reach into depths of degradation which psychiatry cannot touch. Says Captain Tom Crocker, onetime alcoholic and drug addict who is now in command of the army's famed Harbor Light corps in Chicago: "Overcoming drunkenness is a matter of prayer from beginning...
Three of the four patients had had no relapses or reinfections since their history-making treatment with penicillin. The fourth had had reinfections, but had been cured again. Concluded Dr. Arnold: "These four men have all married, have children, and have taken a respectable place in the life of the community...
...eventually up to $15. There is an Alcoholics Anonymous group at the center, so that the men can fight together against the temptations of rum. There is a recreation room on the second floor with a television set, which eliminates one excuse for going to a neighborhood bar. Life's derelicts are put to work mending old clothes, fixing broken furniture and radio sets-and get back, if all goes well, on the road to self-respect and usefulness...
...Respectability. He leads what he calls a "very humdrum life" in the five-room frame house the army furnishes him in Ramsey, N.J., and rides to his 14th Street office every morning in the Buick sedan which the army allots him, behind a Dutch chauffeur who escaped from a German slave labor camp...
...married, but to the commissioner's deep disappointment, none of them followed him into active army service. One reason they didn't, he thinks, was because of the shock of coming back to the U.S. after their early years spent in the Orient. "The clash of life in the U.S., after the quiet of the Far East," he says, "was very exciting to them. It was all we could do to hold them in line...