Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...live in the wards. At any one time, hundreds are hospitalized with every disease in the book. Their plight had long been a nightmare to Dr. William J. Gallagher. Chlorpromazine to him has seemed like the answer to a prayer. Agitated patients who previously could not be kept quiet without undesirably heavy doses of barbiturates now rest comfortably. And, more important, they stop resisting the medical or surgical treatment that they need. After operations, they allow surgical wounds to heal...
...until Joe Martin arose and walked slowly to the micro phone, pulled several papers from his in side coat pocket, looked at the sea of House faces and said: "A little while ago, the President handed me a letter. With your indulgence I will read it." In a quiet voice, Martin read Eisenhower's letter, which 1) promised that there will be no drastic tariff cuts, and 2) said that "I deeply believe that the national interest calls for enactment of this measure." West Virginia's Cleveland Bailey made one last stand for protectionism, but he was beaten...
...Communist agents had urged villagers not to listen to Diem's Nationalist talk, not to accept his food parcels, not to put their fish on the market, thereby forcing prices up. Yet Diem's confident beginning soon showed remarkable gains. The Hoa Hao sect, outnumbered, lay quiet. Out of the swamps came 1,000 deserters from the Communist army, to join Diem...
...Venezuela goes into its fifth year under Pérez Jiménez, many of the other passengers on the oil-powered dreamboat profess to admire the skipper's hard-fisted style of command. "Don't rock the boat," say prosperous U.S. businessmen, happily noting the political quiet, record oil production, boom-time construction and the rising standard of living (70% up in the last decade). But the advice is given so often as to reflect at least a subconscious awareness that the boat may be somewhat unseaworthy. Sample weaknesses...
...five U.S. correspondents in Moscow, the meeting last week of Russia's Supreme Soviet was a quiet story-until Chairman Volkov stepped forward and read Malenkov's resignation. Led by United Press Correspondent Kenneth Brodney. the newsmen bolted for the door, raced down four flights of stairs, and ran across three large Kremlin courtyards to their cars. While they scribbled notes, Russian chauffeurs sped them over the city's slush-covered streets to the Central Telegraph Office. Brodney got there first, put through a phone call to London and scored a clean 19-minute beat...