Word: recoverable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congratulations for your realistic reporting that exposes the doings of Congress in their true light. Being a Southerner, I have special reason to be enraged at men like Rankin, who continually refuse to allow the South to recover from the wounds she received during the Civil War and the Reconstruction...
Hoist. In Detroit, John Gremblewski prepared a poisoned ham sandwich, left it out for rats, later got hungry. He will recover.
Lest the amply fed think that India's immense misery had passed, an American missionary wrote home a letter: "It will take at least five years to recover from the effects [of 1943's famine] from a health standpoint, and more than that to recover from a moral...
A few interviews usually start a patient toward recovery. If they do not help, some kind of shock treatment is used; but patients requiring shock are unlikely to recover completely. Then begins a longer period, probably months, of making the patient independent of the psychiatrist. Best way to do this...
Sir Thomas Beecham suggested to modern composers that they become "more socially stupid" and "intellectually puerile." Lecturing in Manhattan, he feared that the "creative current ... in music is running dry. . . . Let's please pray that our creative artists . . . be outrageous, impractical, impossible . . . but . . . recover their pride in their craft...