Word: outgrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...mythologists are not providing myths, but they are indicating that something is missing without them. They are telling modern man that he has not outgrown mythology and will never outgrow it so long as he has hopes and fears beyond the other animals...
...Racism continues to be a dismal scandal, and so does the failure of people to realize the full meaning of technology for the possible and, on valid grounds, desirable, emancipation of women from the socially assigned restriction to being mere wives and mothers... We white men have got to outgrow the lingering superstitions about sex and race, and rethink customs and institutions which are adequate to the dangers and difficulties that technology has produced...