Word: prescriptioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prescription: to accept, "so to speak," a second Bill of Rights, "economic truths [that] have become accepted as self-evident." The prescription:
For a part of his Message to Congress on the State of the Union, Dr. Win-the-War had apparently called into consultation one Dr. Win-New-Rights. The physicians emerged with a diagnosis and a prescription.
Deeply distrustful of propaganda wizardry at home, Hoyt raised hell, sometimes in public, with that school of governmental thought that wants to manipulate the people into "war awareness." His prescription: just give them a play-byplay account of the real war, as swiftly, as honestly, and as completely as legitimate...
Lockheed Aircraft research workers have made a new sulfa drug, desoxyephe-dronium sulfathiazole (a combination of an ephedrine compound which shrinks swollen membranes, and bacteria-fighting sulfathiazole), have treated more than 1,000 Lockheed colds with it. The drug was used as a nose-&-throat spray and as a nasal...
There was a kind of grim good news for half the human race last week: a doctor stated flatly that he does not think castration is the inevitable prescription for prostatic cancer.