Word: onset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slow & Easy. Regardless of hereditary tendencies, the actual onset of stuttering always seems to be associated with some psychological upset. At the hospital Dr. Greene and the medical staff try to ferret out the cause, then to remove it by teaching "emotional control." The watchword of the institution is Relax. Patients of all ages are taught to relax, by physical training and just lying still-youngsters on mattresses on the floor, adults in underslung steamer chairs. The walls are plastered with signs: "Slow-Easy...
...question of rank has long been a bone of contention between the Army band and the Navy and Marine bands. The latter had always had all their men in the first three grades. During the war the Army band had no trouble in finding skilled musicians, but with the onset of rapid demobilization it was found necessary to give the increase in ratings in order to keep the talented men they had acquired...
...human memory congealed from legend into record, India loomed from the unimaginable reach of time. Its landscape matched its origins -an immense wedge of the world, vast plains cracked by a too hot sun, vast jungles writhing with growth from too dense rains, vast cities melting under the unflagging onset of oblivion and the soft decay of stone itself, 400 million people pullulating in a too frantic drive to defeat the multiplicity of daily death...
...this crisis is solved-and swearing in Truman did not solve it-will be of greater import to the world than Pearl Harbor, the onset of World War II, etc. Who is going to make Congress see the dynamite of rejecting Bretton Woods and cajole them into reasonableness (or have you failed to tell us good reasons why Congress should want to reject...
...Odds. Stage II began when Hitler voluntarily gave up one of his advantages. At the onset of the Russian campaign, the Wehrmacht mustered about 150 German and Rumanian divisions to the Russians' 110. In armor and planes the Wehrmacht had even greater superiority. But a month later, in spite of having lost hundreds of thousands of men, Stalin had as many men in the field as Hitler. Hitler never again outclassed his opponents in manpower...