Word: symptoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like most doctors in the same spot, Dr. Lowenberg gave his patient the argument but not the drug. Carefully he explained that high blood pressure is not in itself a disease; it is a symptom of an underlying disorder. Unfortunately, in at least 75% of cases, the root cause is unknown. This cause may be a killer, or patients may live for years and die of some disease which has nothing to do with the state of their blood vessels. Because doctors know that emotional strain is often a big factor in the life of such a patient, they...
...urban "masses" lived on greyly in the crumbling cities, without even cigarettes to solace their degradation. Curiously, a leading symptom of their despair was a marked rise in female homosexuality. Legions of psychiatrists, "the new vampires," policed the souls of citizens...
...fact a total crisis -religious, moral, intellectual, social, political, economic. It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis...
...intensified Catholic pro gram for parochial schools, Cardinal Spellman's controversy with Mrs. Roosevelt in which he denounced her for bigotry, Harry Truman's designation of General Clark as ambassador to the Vatican. The Clark appointment, says Bernstein, "was both, a cause of antagonism and a clear symptom of it. Catholics were not aware of the in tensity of Protestant feeling until the President's announcement released a storm . . ." His advice: "First, a word to the Catholics. It seems that Catholics generally do not realize the offensiveness to non-Catholics of the church's claim...
Faded Glamour. The unpleasant truth seemed to be that the stay-downers were a symptom of a whole complex of problems. For one thing, flying has become so commonplace that the call of the wide blue yonder has lost some of its appeal to the nation's youth. This year, for the first time, fewer than the allowable 25% of the graduating classes at West Point and Annapolis volunteered for flying training...