Word: pill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bitter Pill. The book was written as a weapon in Taft's last fight for the presidency. He entered it as the man who had earned and unquestionably held the leadership of his party-"Mr. Republican," no less. By the old rules of U.S. party politics, Taft would have won the nomination hands down. But the old rules had crumbled. Congressional leadership counted for less than it had in the past. Many Republicans disagreed strongly with Bob Taft. More opposed not Taft but the image which his enemies had fixed in the public mind. Still more understood that...
Taft took this bitter pill like a politician of principle. He believed in himself, but believed also in what his party stood for. On Morningside Heights, he and Eisenhower worked out a statement of agreed principles. Taft pledged his allegiance and he never wavered...
Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, who believes that free markets are best for farmers, last week had to swallow a bitter pill. He restricted plantings for next year's wheat crop to 62 million acres, down 20% from this year's planting, and thus imposed the first acreage controls on wheat in three years. He also ordered a vote by the nation's farmers on whether marketing quotas should be imposed, the first such poll in eleven years. If two-thirds of the farmers approve the quotas, as expected, they may sell only as much as they...
...being tainted is-'tain't enough." Last week Walter could boast of having the board's backing again: at its year-end meeting, it gave him a vote of "appreciation for outstanding services." But Walter's latest outstanding service was going to be a bitter pill for Piedmont. Last week, as parents and alumni gathered for the commencement exercises, they faced the bleak news that the Congregational Board of Home Missions had disowned the college, sent letters to its churches freeing them from any obligation to contribute to Piedmont. From now on, without the churches...
With this sugar-coating on the pill, the executive usually is willing to undergo the numerous tests. While these are going on, one of the Greenbrier's doctors gives him a light psychiatric once-over, looking for hidden tensions in his office or home life. In most cases, Greenbrier's director, Dr. James P. Baker, has found that executives take treatment for ailments detected. Nine out of ten whose examinations show organic troubles undergo surgery or change their habits. Six out of ten patients found overweight start reducing. To help them, companies like Du Pont have developed special...