Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short of men. It has to resort to the limited capacity of cripples and of the blind. Yet before your very doorsteps you have strong, healthy men, willing to do whatever is asked of them, who are now engaged in occupations that are of little value to the United Nations...
Some patients begin well, then reach a "plateau," stop losing. Only then, as a rule, does Dr. Cutting resort to thyroid. Generally he avoids it because, except in doses large enough to be dangerous (e.g., to the heart), thyroid is less effective than diet...
...killing and devouring. Animals may fight their own kind in a tussle over a mate or some choice morsel of food. They fight to defend their young, their homes, or their own lives. Some are aggressive and go about seeking what they may devour; others fight as a last resort when they are cornered...
...Lake Placid vacation amused Coach John Chase's hockey team during the Christmas holidays. With very little collegiate rink action at the winter resort, the Crimson pucksters spent the Yuletide working out on local rinks to keep in shape for the two games scheduled this week...
...Freeman and Watts by no means think that psychosurgery should be used on all psychotics. They make clear the risks-possible death, possible mental dullness from too much brain-cutting. Psychosurgery, they say, is a last resort after less drastic therapy has failed...