Word: quacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried New Zealand's Delegate W. J. Jordan (as Soviet Delegate Andrei Vishinsky moved that France be barred from voting rights on the Rumanian and other east European treaty commissions): "Quack! Quack! Quack!" Said Senator Tom Connally (as he embarked to join Secretary of State Byrnes in Paris): "All you do is sit all day going...
...from Atoms? Radioactive study is but one of 19 fields which the American Cancer Society is exploring. Down through the years, a defensive battle has been fought with weapons both good & bad: the knife, X ray, radium bullets, chemotherapy, heat, cold ("frozen sleep"), drugs, diet, prayer, many a quack salve and medicine. Treatment today, as it has been since the time Hippocrates used a soldering iron against tumors, is based largely on one principle: destruction or removal of diseased tissue. Not until last year was a major campaign against cancer instituted, with top scientists, doctors and businessmen united...
...atmosphere of tension and hysteria Reuther at last went to Convention Hall to hear the decision. With sideline fist fights, near-riots, shouts of "quack, quack" (the auto workers' way of saluting Communist colleagues), with threats and pleas for order from the chair-and with most of the 60 lady delegates voting for Reuther-labor's most democratic union elected its leader. Reuther squeaked in by a hair (4,444 to 4,320). R. J. Thomas wept and stumbled off the stage...
Most startling fact: Hitler's personal physician, Dr. Theodor Morell, had been a mere quack. He made a large fortune out of his job, pumped vast amounts of narcotics, stimulants, aphrodisiacs or just plain colored water into Hitler, slowly undermining his bourgeois good health...
...Chicago last week, the American Association of Junior Colleges heard warnings that quack, fly-by-night schools and colleges are springing up all over the U.S.-most of them hoping to grab veterans, who are each allowed $500 tuition under the G.I. Bill of Rights...