Word: thrive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempt to impose unnatural bonds upon normal political activity in Council elections would deny the ideal of fullest possible participation. Cliques and bloes which thrive on low vote turnouts could more readily victimize the Councils. The use of the preferential ballot has been beneficial in preventing minority-backed candidates from finishing first. The present election procedure is by no means perfect in this respect, but it does mark departure from the antiquated idea that all political division is an evil...
...Sweets. Jay's 18-year study of teeth has convinced him that (as many dentists now believe) the prime cause of tooth decay is a germ called Lactobacillus acidopholus. Found in saliva, it attacks teeth from the outside. Sugar is bad for the teeth because lactobacilli thrive...
...ideological control of key areas. But this food remains American food, distributed to highly sensitive and alert students in areas where food means more than dialectics. If we are not concerned over what happens to the young men of east Europe and China, there are others who will thrive on this indifference. For lack of any other program, food has become the sole American pathway to prestige in cast Europe. If we must be hard-headed, let that prestige be security for our investment...
Heart specialists have found rheumatic fever a complicated, baffling disease. Though it is usually preceded by a streptococcus infection (e.g., a "strep" throat, scarlet fever), researchers have not been able to establish the connection between the germ (hemolytic streptococcus) and R.F. It seems to thrive best in crowded slums, but it is not unusually prevalent among Negroes. It is chronically high in sparsely settled Colorado...
...reconstruction from the setbacks of the war barely begun the decision to hold the election at this time was indeed unfortunate. Certainly the American State Department should ultimately settle for nothing less than completely democratic processes in Poland, but democracy is a delicate plant and cannot be expected to thrive in the barren soil that is Poland today. If democracy is to be brought into Poland it must be cultivated step by step. The most obvious move in that direction is material aid in the Polish reconstruction and in the stabilization of the Polish atmosphere to one more healthy...