Word: questionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chiefly," he began in response to our question, "readers have been asking for it, requesting it, for a long time. Finally, there were so many asking for it, we decided we'd have it-for their convenience. Really, you know, it is helpful, particularly in looking something up in back issues. It will be very helpful to librarians and researchers...
Some babies born with severe internal malformations have hernias that must be corrected surgically to save life. Surgery may also be required for adult victims of chest injuries in which the diaphragm is torn. The question before the surgeons in Boston was to decide when surgery is indicated for the vast majority of in-between patients whose hernias result from a slight innate weakness. The answer depends largely on how successful the surgery will...
...Question and Answer. As for an ulcer, the principal prescription is a bland diet, with antacids and possibly drugs to reduce the stomach's activity. One added feature: sleeping with the head of the bed elevated six to eight inches, to discourage backflow from stomach to gullet...
...shuffling past a Broadway theater at intermission time. With smug insouciance, he addresses a passing query to the patrons under the marquee: "How about it, folks? Getting your eleven dollars and ninety cents' worth?" Top ticket prices are $15 for 1776, and to answer the bum's question, it is a bearable $3 show...
Reluctant Step. One reason the rate increase caused so little commotion was that it had been anticipated in banking circles for weeks; the only question was which bank would start it. New York's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. took the reluctant first step. The bank is, after all, well attuned to credit pressures. A leading corporate lender, it was one of the banks most severely squeezed in the "credit crunch" of 1966. This time, the Federal Reserve Board's policy of gradual "disinflation without deflation" has kept U.S. banks at some distance from anything like the 1966 crisis...