Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...volunteers go on diet rotation: one week with low fat, one with no fat, one on high fat. During each stage, the human guinea pigs are tapped for blood samples for studies of the fat content. Some get a regular prebreakfast injection of heparin (a drug usually administered to prevent bloodclotting) to see what effect it has on fats in the blood...
Elsewhere in Mississippi, resistance to desegregation was taking on an extra-legal hue. Throughout the state, white businessmen and farmers have begun to organize local "Citizens' Councils" to prevent Negro children from entering white schools, "by legal means if possible." Negro leaders are quietly urged not to challenge the status quo; otherwise, as one councillor put it: "The good feeling and harmony that have been building here for many years could all be wiped away...
...Genuinely panic-stricken disaster victims who cannot be brought around quickly should be segregated to prevent general panic, even if this means using two or three workers in good condition to isolate one frantic victim...
Newsday staffers, who have voted against the Newspaper Guild, are paid at about the national Guild scale plus a bonus of close to 6% every year. "To prevent office politics." all five of Newsday's top executives (Managing Editor Hathway; Ad Manager Ernest Levy, 55; Business Manager Harold Ferguson, 47; Production Manager Allan Woods, 41; Circulation Manager Jack Mullen, 43) get the same salary. Since 85% of its circulation is home-delivered, Newsday has one of the largest forces of carrier boys (3,000) in the U.S. The paper paternally treats the most enterprising ones royally to new bikes...
...Haan ("Read the Bible closely and never out of context . . ."). Television's religious note is more often interdenominational and inspirational. This week Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking) and his wife devoted 30 filmed minutes (CBS) to assuring viewers that an inferiority complex should not prevent financial success. The Peales told how a friend of theirs, a perennial business failure, utilized his return to the bosom of the church to develop a profitable line of costume jewelry: he featured the "mustard seed of faith" (Matthew 17:20) in charm bracelets, clips and watch fobs. Said...