Word: offing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Of 150 patients, none had a major lung-artery blockage while receiving phenindione. though three had embolisms (two of them fatal) after the drug was stopped. Among the untreated 150, no fewer than 15 deaths appeared to be solely or substantially attributable to traveling clots. Like all anticoagulants, phenindione must...
THE economic news of 1959 was that, in a year when the U.S. reached new heights of prosperity, the fruits of high production and resourceful salesmanship were at long last shared and enjoyed by a multitude of other nations.
In 1959, most of the world's industrialized nations reached new peaks of production and wealth, and less developed nations tasted the first fruits of free enterprise and asked confidently for more.
Throughout the year, the full extent of the free world's progress was often clouded by worry over the economic threat of the Communist nations. The Soviets and their satellites made fast progress. But the free world traveled faster. The record was plain in the soaring production statistics, the...
Despite the new riches, no one regarded the world through Utopian spectacles in 1959; desperate poverty was still a condition of life in many lands. Nevertheless, even the humblest of nations could at least look ahead to the 1960s with hope. There were two reasons for this. In their new...