Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Antolin cannot resume his position as head of the family. Nor will he be outsmarted by his relatives' greedy efforts to get his modest savings, which he earned as a London waiter. Crooks, brothel keepers, Falange bullies, Communist organizers, father confessors, mediums, and honest workers appear in the proper places doing predictable deeds...
MacArthur's armistice offer may establish contact with the Chinese military arm, but his unauthorized threat of an attack on Chine proper is more likely to strengthen resistance than to promote a settlement. In any case, his tendency to make policy decisions without consulting our allies undermines the principle of common U.N. action and makes further cooperation all the more difficult...
...rainmaking techniques be used on a nationwide scale, with generous federal support. Most impressive was Dr. Vannevar Bush, former head of the wartime Office of Research and Development. Scientific rainmaking, said Bush, is "a very early art ... but I have become convinced that it is possible under the proper circumstances to make rain." Bush urged federal action, but he had one reservation: the U.S. Weather Bureau, which is still skeptical about rainmaking, should...
...towering role of De Lawd, 27-year-old William Marshall brings physical Tightness and a proper dignity, but not the stature of the late William B. Harrison, and not the grandeur demanded by the part. The play itself, being highly episodic, can hardly avoid being uneven; and along with folk touches that seem genuine and fresh, go some that seem slick and laid on. But The Green Pastures in general is a stage piece that derives its vitality from something more far-reaching than the stage...
...eight states,* their graduates may now prescribe drugs and perform surgery, as well as practice the "manipulation" which is the keynote of their science. The main trouble has been the osteopath's emphasis on manipulation, a technique designed to maintain the normal circulation of blood and proper nerve function, which osteopaths regard as basic to all health. Thus, many M.D.s persist in regarding osteopathy as little better than chiropractic, whose practitioners claim that illness springs from maladjustment of the spinal column. The American Medical Association still holds it unethical for an M.D. to refer his patients to an osteopath...