Word: panacea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boost in fertilizer production by 1980, and increased "Leninist incentives" (i.e., pay for peasants). Burying his seven-year-old decentralization program, Khrushchev put responsibility for agriculture on a vast central administration. With all the fervor of his old crusade for corn, he even plugged a brand-new party-line panacea: abandonment of Stalin's system of sowing grain fields to grass every few years.* Instead of allowing almost half the valuable land to lie fallow, Khrushchev decreed that farmers henceforth will rotate grain with peas, beans, sugar beets and other crops...
Only by combing such moves can Harvard at once emphasize the imminent danger of war and reject the false promises of the shelter panacea. When action makes survival a real hope, the University must act. But it is past time for playing wishing games with our chances in the year to come...
...have given way to "the illustrated brochure, the medicine-show extravaganza to the television commercial." Among the quacks now under FDA attack, Ribicoff pointed out by way of a modern horrible example, are peddlers of bottled sea water, priced at up to $20 a gallon, as a "preventive and panacea for virtually all human ailments...
...earliest panacea peddlers to cross the Rio Grande was Dr. John Richard Brinkley, the ''goat-gland" tycoon who exploited his failing listeners' yearnings for potency to the tune of some $1,000,000 a year before he died bankrupt...
People are most anxious to talk about it at the Peace Corps office. Bill Moyers, a 28-year-old former Baptist minister, is Associate Director of Public Affairs. "We are under no illusions that this is a panacea. We aren't overly optimistic, and we don't think we're supermen," he said at the outset...