Word: treat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Association denounced U.S. divorce laws as "rotten" and "disgraceful," urged that the nation cease warring on the institution of divorce and begin trying to improve it. Some of its suggestions: uniformity of state divorce laws, a new type of divorce hearing, establishment of courts equipped to diagnose and treat failing marriages...
...editorial thunder, Bertie McCormick answered them: "This is tantamount to a request that we try to glamorize the doings of the U.N. . . . Our reporters who cover the meetings of U.N., or Congress, or the legislature are expected to know the difference between windbags, crooks and statesmen, and to treat them accordingly in all news dispatches ... So long ... as U.N. remains a fraud on the hopes of many decent people, it will be treated...
Schizophrenia (split personality) is the most mysterious, and perhaps the commonest, of mental disorders. It is hard to diagnose, hard to treat, and it accounts for at least 35% of U.S. insane-asylum inmates...
Parson Patrick decided to bring the secret suffering into the open. One Sunday last month, when the time came to start his sermon, he told the worshipers: "Today you'll have a treat. I'll read you a sermon sent to me in the form of a letter. Some of your names are mentioned in it, but ... it's all for the best...
...wire fence in centerfield (to spoil a free view for passers-by). The ball came out of that background and was on top of the batter before he knew it. By the seventh inning, not a Yankee had collected a hit. Murry's Cardinal teammates began to treat him just as if he were pitching a no-hitter in the regular season -when it counted...