Word: regularization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There's a Peace On. General Allen wasted no time. A Regular Army soldier who fought with distinction in both World Wars I & II, Honk Allen has a knowl edge of newspapering that could be put into a K-ration container and still rattle around. He cavalierly announced that re porters had been present at the surrender "by the courtesy of SHAEF." And, using Kennedy's misdeed as a shillelagh, he an nounced that henceforth all newsmen in Europe would be let in on the Army's confidences chiefly because "I have engaged to be personally responsible...
...newest thing in newspapers is a Buck Rogerish fantasy come true. It is a four-page, pictureless, adless New York Times - containing much of the News That's Fit to Print, distilled from the Times' s regular 32 to 40 pages. It crosses the country by wirephoto, at the speed of 20 minutes a half page, and delegates to the San Francisco conference read it at breakfast...
Five days a week for a year, they fed pills to selected groups of workers - mostly healthy young men whose regular diet was plenty of meat, eggs and milk, not quite enough fruit and vegetables). Half the men got pills containing vitamins and minerals, the other half just pills...
Next comes training of the paralyzed organs. By slow, patient use of a "tidal drainage" system, the paralyzed bladder and bowels are conditioned to empty themselves automatically at regular intervals. Learning to walk is more difficult. In most cases success depends mainly on 1 ) convincing the patient of the incredible fact that walking is possible, 2) exercises to strengthen' the arms and shoulders (which supply the power for swinging the legs). Finally comes training for a job that a man can do with head and hands alone...
When the sergeant became a regular visitor to Orchilly, he found that Bernard was a tormented man. He could not forgive himself for having left China when the Japanese marched in. He was harrowed by the thought that his wife's mysterious illness was simply a means of preventing him from returning to the squalid Eastern life she detested, and he dreaded the day when he would have to choose between his duty to her and his vocation. And finally he saw that his children, Vaughan and Virginia, were becoming more & more skeptical of his religious teachings...