Word: mend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three Philadelphia researchers report that wounds treated with chlorophyll mend faster than those treated with penicillin or sulfa drugs. Further finding: a cut on the index finger heals faster than one on the pinky...
...realize it at the moment but ... I was [then] on the slippery road of public life." Out of that grew Belgian Relief, and out of that the great Hoover relief & reconstruction program after the war. Refusing always to take a penny for salary or expenses, he fed and helped mend the lives of millions of Europeans, fought the European Allies' attempts to use food as a political lever (Winston Churchill's Admiralty strongly suggested to the Foreign Office that Hoover was spying for the Germans). Before Americans had come to know the stolid, moonfaced man in the high...
...Rogers used sections of bone from Olivia Holguin's legs to strengthen the little girls' vertebrae. Walking well on her new legs (she used neither crutches nor cane), Olivia Holguin went to Southwestern General Hospital to pay a visit to the children she had helped to mend. Last week, both youngsters went home...
...cover this tough assignment, the editors picked Jim Bell, who was back in the U.S. to mend an arm injury that he got in Korea. You may remember some of Bell's stories since he joined our Chicago staff in 1942. His account of the 1947 Centralia Mine disaster is still the model for young correspondents on Mid-West assignments. Among the cover stories for which he supplied background: Harold Stassen (1947), FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover (1949), Frank Costello (1949), and Charles E. Wilson (1951). In his work as a war correspondent, Bell's "Battle...
This exam period, as always, this attitude will be shattered for five or ten chronic misusers of English, who will be forced by the Committee on the Use of English by Students to mend their ways...