Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors' estimates, as many as 50 mililon Americans this fall may have to take to their beds for at least four to five days with a special variety of sniffles, aches, pains and high fever. In some areas, between 10% and 20 % of the population may be out of action all at once. Reason: It is now clear that despite the best efforts of medical men and drug manufacturers, only a small part of the U.S. population can be protected in time against the new flu virus that filtered through the Bamboo Curtain last April. For the latest, disquieting...
...Marietta escorted by the family coachman, a slave named Monday Russell (because he was born on Monday); Old Slave Monday lived on to serve in that carpetbag Georgia state legislature come Reconstruction. Dick was taught to call Negroes "the colored people" and he admired and respected them in that special, paternal Southern way. Once, when he considered joining the Ku Klux Klan, his father took him aside and handed out some advice that was to last Dick the rest of his life: "Son, any organization where the members are not willing to go around unmasked-I'd go slow...
...days before they were due to cast primary ballots in a special election to pick Joe McCarthy's Senate successor, Wisconsin voters got some eleventh-hour advice from the influential (circ. 354,879) Milwaukee Journal. The Journal front-paged a cartoon of a circus tent and six sideshows, dubbed them former Governor Walter J. (for Jodok) Kohler Jr. and his six G.O.P. opponents. Warned the caption: "Don't be taken in by the sideshows." The voters weren't. In an election where total returns were slimmed to 460,000 (out of 2,200,000 eligibles) by summer...
...press has greatly expanded coverage of economic issues since World War II, but business news is still skimped and segregated by most dailies in the obdurate belief that it is a specialized concern of a special few. This assumption flies in the face of an unparalleled broadening of popular interest in business. Whether as consumers, taxpayers, stockholders, homeowners, union members, employees or businessmen, newspaper readers are concerned as never before with the economic fronts that affect their pocketbooks. Millions of readers, for example, have a direct stake in blow-by-blow coverage of inflation and its many-faceted causes...
...mood merchants have concentrated on romance (Music for Tired Lovers, Music to Change Her Mind), but dining (Candlelight and Wine) and travel music is also catching on fast (Echoes of Spain, Music for the Nostalgic Traveler). So are such special items as Music for Baby Sitters and Music to Break a Lease. There are mood albums, the record companies boast, for every member of the family and for almost every household activity. Still, the possibilities remain vast. Not yet in the catalogue: Music for Boozing and Music to Soothe Your Hangover, Music to Shave By (so far, the bathroom...