Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since his return from Rio, President Truman had tried to make up his mind whether or not he should call a special session of Congress. There was increasing pressure on him to call one. Without some stopgap, immediate help, some European nations might not be able to hold out. But there was no telling what...
Said the U.S. Government in a stinging (but futile) note of protest: "The trial of Petkoff recalls to mind another trial which occurred in Leipzig 14 years ago. In that earlier trial, a Bulgarian defendant [Dimitroff] evoked worldwide admiration for his courageous defiance of the Nazi bully who participated in his prosecution. Today that defendant has assumed another role and it is now the courage of another Bulgarian [Petkoff] whose steadfast opposition to forces of oppression has evoked worldwide admiration...
Half the people who call on doctors are sick in mind as well as in body. To describe their trouble, doctors now use the word psychosomatic (from the Greek psyche, mind, and soma, body). Last week a top-rank woman practitioner of psychosomatic medicine, Dr. Flanders Dunbar of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, published a fascinating book on the subject (Mind and Body; Random House...
Psychosomatic patients do not just imagine their ailments, Dr. Dunbar points out; they may be seriously or fatally ill of real diseases. An upset mind, she says, can actually bring on or aggravate heart disease, diabetes, stomach ulcers, asthma, tuberculosis.* Some Dunbar observations...
...Psychosomatic medicine superficially resembles, but is not to be confused with, Christian Science's mental healing. Christian Science's Founder Mary Baker Eddy, unlike the psychosomatists, held that illness is unreal, and disappears when the mind, stripped of error and evil, discovers God's reality...