Word: retardation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reaction was drastic. Last month he posted a sign overlooking King David Memorial Garden, which said: "Investigation has disclosed underground streams with considerable flow just below the surface of this entire area. If you insist on being buried [here] please use a coffin of a type that will retard contamination of our well." A fortnight ago, five 25-ft. gallows, equipped with hangman's nooses, appeared on the Curtin property, looming lugubriously over the cemetery. Soon, Curtin promised, he would add realistic dummies...
...team of helpers tried out Krebiozen on 22 cancer sufferers, some of whom were considered hopeless and "terminal" (dying). In general, the effect of the drug was to diminish or abolish pain, improve the appetite and "feeling tone" (subjective well-being), and arrest or retard the malignant tumors. Nine of the subjects died, but even they showed improvement before death, and some of them died of other causes (e.g., heart disease, pneumonia and other lung involvements). Two of the 13 still alive last week showed no remaining evidences of cancer...
...fixing has always failed, from Diocletian* to Truman . . ." Free prices "provide the best method of stimulating production of the things that are really needed, and of restricting consumption of the things that are in short supply." To Leffingwell, frozen wages are no better than frozen prices: they "tend to retard the movement of men from nonessential to essential jobs ... I do not believe in forced labor . . . and that is what wage-fixing means...
During the next ten years, Slichter continued, "we must retard the rapid rise in government expenditures, the rapid spread of government intervention in business, and the drop in influence of businessmen in our communities...