Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doctors and insurance men have long known that the middle-aged U.S. male dangerously neglects medical checkups, as a result seldom enjoys the best possible health. Last week the New York City Cancer Committee showed how dangerous this neglect can be. Examining 412 volunteers, mostly Manhattan executives and mostly aged 45 to 50, committee doctors discovered that only 68, a bare 15%, were free of serious ailments. Five executives had probable skin cancers relatively easy to cure, but 53 had "potentially precancerous" conditions. Thirty-five men had benign tumors requiring medical attention; 59 suffered from high blood pressure. Some...
...require rather fundamental shifting and rearrangement in the present political alignment, not only of our two parties but in the deeper strata of public attitude which support and maintain them. I shall concentrate, therefore, on the times and manner of such creative political responses in our past, to the neglect, perhaps, of other features of our political processes less relevant for the present purpose...
...this is written, we have had a three and one-half year period of Republican control of the executive branch of our government, and most of my illustrations therefore will be drawn from relatively current events. I will not, however, neglect the period of Republican Congressional control, in 1946-1948, for there, too, we should find supporting evidence if my thesis is sound...
...Distressed" by the "neglect of our city's colleges, especially Radcliffe" in the city's evacuation emergency, Cambridge City Council yesterday unanimously passed a bill ordering the City Manager to improve evacuation procedures for the University, the 'Cliffe, and M.I.T...
...girls up on Garden St. aren't safe from the Reds either, you know," said Councillor John D. Lynch, who introduced the bill. He added that the current neglect of Radcliffe was brought to his attention late last Saturday night when he noticed Walker St. "packed solid with cars, and a girl with a bulldog in every...