Word: outgrow
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...baseball bats and string as guitars. "I was so happy then--completely lost in them. It was sort of like finding God," says Phyllis. "I haven't been so happy since. You sat around and said, 'Oh, Ohhhhhhhh, The Beatles!' My parents said, 'It's a phase, you'll outgrow it,' but I said, 'Never, never.' It was my whole life till they broke up. That was the end of an era. It was my childhood ending. Since then, there's been nothing. You just go to work and sleep...
...tangible and immeasurable. But much of the science part of medicine remains largely hit or miss. One doctor will pre scribe twice as much of a potent antibiotic as another, or prescribe a needlessly dangerous drug. One surgeon will hurry to operate, while another will say, "This child will outgrow the problem," and spare the knife...
What happens next between the White House and the press? Despite the Administration's seemingly conciliatory attitude, no love feast is in prospect. A long history of bitterness and distrust cannot be swept away quickly. Yet if the Administration can outgrow the anger reflex set off by even routine criticism and allow newsmen more access at the White House, a degree of mutual respect can develop...
...asserts that narcotics dependence among returned veterans is no higher than it is among those who did not serve. In a finding that is bound to raise eyebrows among drug experts, the report also implies that heroin addiction, far from being incurable, is a habit that many people simply outgrow...
...Though epilepsy can be controlled by drugs, it has generally been regarded as incurable. New evidence, however, suggests that some children outgrow epilepsy. Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report in the New England Journal of Medicine that children kept free of convulsions by long-term drug treatment can go on without seizures even after the medicine is stopped. Of 148 epileptic children who had been taking anticonvulsant preparations for at least four years, only 24% suffered new attacks after the end of drug...