Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ears (tinnitus), followed by impaired hearing, spells of dizziness accompanied by unbearable nausea, and severe vomiting. Meniere's, named for French Physician Prosper Meniere (1799-1862) who first described it, is so distressing that doctors are eager to try anything that will give their patients a measure of relief. Some get help from drugs, including histamine solutions, which have to be infused into a vein; others are subjected to drastic surgical procedures...
...long and tedious process. But in a careful double-blind study, in which neither doctor nor patient knew which was the drug and which was the dummy sugar pill, Dr. Joseph C. Elia of Reno reported excellent results. Three-fourths of the time, the patients on the drug enjoyed relief from dizziness, nausea and headache; the tinnitus response was not so uniform, but still substantial...
...Until 18 months ago, Leo Carter's job was to sweep, mop and polish the floors at Miami Beach's St. Francis Hospital. Today, as proprietor of The Best Floor Waxing Service, he is an entrepreneur with six employees. Mexican-born Joe Garcia, on relief in Manhattan eight months ago, now takes in about $240 a week as the operator of a midtown newsstand. David Flowers, who had to give up his job as a house painter after he injured his back in an auto crash, has become the owner of a thriving eight-pump, seven-employee service...
...Cyprus. Besides, as nominal head of an organization composed of 121 sovereign states, he was, as he put it in September, when he announced that he definitely would not seek another term, merely "a glorified clerk." Yet last week, to the surprise of practically no one and to the relief of practically everyone, U Thant agreed to serve a second five-year term. The General Assembly hastily re-elected him by a vote...
...Today, as administrator of the three-month-old National Traffic Safety Agency, Haddon still remains considerate of his patients. Last week, amid the chrome of the annual Detroit Auto Show, the industry's brass gathered to hear what Haddon's agency had in mind. To their vast relief, they discovered that they could live pretty well with Haddon's opening list of mandatory safety regulations...