Word: soother
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Having chosen the role of soother and persuader, he is puzzled nonetheless when people do not identify him with the creative, combative politician of yesteryear. After four years as Lyndon Johnson's Vice President, his public persona is that of a subordinate and apologist. It has become increasingly difficult to think of him in such terms as leader, fighter, innovator?which are precisely the terms in which he thinks of himself. He argues these days, urgently and almost desperately, that he is too his own man; that he can too be a strong, forward-looking President. Perhaps. But in order...
...please the gods; the Sioux passed around the calumet to seal the peace; 16th century Frenchman Jean Nicot (whose name is immortalized in the word nicotine) promoted pipe smoking as a sure cure for ulcers; and 19th century authors rhapsodized like Bulwer-Lytton: "A pipe, it is a great soother, a pleasant comforter. Blue devils fly before its honest breath. It ripens the brain, it opens the heart, and the man who smokes thinks like a Samaritan...
...Peale is still very much in the here and now. He believes that his success as a soother and pacifier in an age of anxiety is a sign of the times. Dr. Peale is already thinking of a follow-up to his book, perhaps to be titled More Positive Thinking or The Techniques of PT. Meanwhile, PT No. 1 continues as a major phenomenon in the publishing world. Not long ago Dr. Peale dropped into a bookstore and asked how his book was doing compared to the Kinsey Report. Peale's was way ahead. "You know," said the salesgirl...
...appointing you the legal guardian of our five youngest children to raise, to feed, to educate, to clothe and to care for according to your standards." Then the Bartons stalked off, leaving five wailing youngsters in court. The startled judge gave them 50? apiece as a soother, then turned them over to the county juvenile home. ¶ In the wooded hills near Shreveport, La., a puma was on the prowl, terrorizing the city's 125,000 residents. Heavily armed hunters and hound dogs were trying to track the beast down...
...doctors might prescribe, for a depressed patient, "two weeks of unsolicited love." This means that the patient's doctor and nurses should treat him with the full measure of brotherly love that he needs but does not know how to ask for. Psychiatrists also use music as a soother, and such "occupational therapy" as publishing newspapers, carpentry and jewelry-making...