Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sees as his most potent rival for the nomination is Missouri's low-flying Stuart Symington (see below), who will probably fight shy of primaries and hope for a convention compromise. To whip a weakening Humphrey, say Kennedy strategists, would only help Symington by removing Humphrey as a potential smoke-filled-room rival...
...Station: men in open-necked sports shirts, women in spring prints, many wearing blue and white badges marked "A.F.L.-C.I.O. Conference on Unemployment-Jobs for All." Already, some members of the Toledo delegation were looking slightly green; something they had eaten aboard their train soon laid 100 of them low, sent 28 to hospitals. Ohio's Republican Congressman William Hanes Ayres of Akron was on hand at the depot with coffee, doughnuts, and a sign saying: SEE YOUR CONGRESSMAN FIRST. HE CAN HELP YOU MOST...
Last week word came that the Dalai Lama had reached safety in the village of Towang, just across the Indian border. His two-week march to the frontier, it was said, had been screened from Red planes by mist and low clouds conjured up by the prayers of Buddhist holy...
...slash in mortgage interest rates to as low as 4% from as much as 12%, further pleasing working-class tenants but virtually paralyzing new real estate ventures...
...Many physicians, finding nothing organically wrong, tell such mothers: "It's all in your mind." That only increases their worries and frustrations. Others, said Dr. Lovshin, "get out their pills and potions and injections" and treat the women for complaints of the doctors' own imagining-anemia, low blood pressure, low metabolism. Or, "we tell them they are not eating right, give them vitamins, and since no normal, active mother has any time to eat right, this catches them all." Some doctors become obsessed with a few pounds' overweight, or fancied excesses in coffee drinking or smoking...