Word: treat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...road to a safer and more hopeful state of world affairs," said Kennan. "is not to be traversed in any giant strides." The way to lessen tension between Russia and the West is to break the conflicts down into specific problems and treat each one separately. "For this, it is not the hectic encounters of senior statesmen under the spotlight of publicity which we need; it is the patient, quiet, orderly use of the regular channels of private communication between governments...
...base of the brain. But each man had just been freed of such symptoms on the right side. For the first time, after more than five years of helplessness, each could write legibly and feed himself an in-flight meal. This improvement in a disease bafflingly difficult to treat had been wrought by three "buzzes" (actually inaudible), lasting less than two seconds each, of ultra-high-frequency sound waves...
...selling streaks, and the agency promptly sent 13 of its 22 salesmen in for the same treatment. Result, according to the agency: eight of the 13 are doing 100% better, two are much better, one a little better, only two showed no improvement. Says one man, who grumpily treated every customer as a "tire kicker," someone who is just killing time: "Now I treat every customer as a potential buyer, and I've been right up in the top five." Says another, who boosted his earnings $300 a month: "I'm not sure exactly what...
...newspapers, whose feature editors sometimes treat the dog story as the newsman's best friend, got their teeth last week into the shaggiest saga of all time. Cracked a city-room wit as Sputnik 11 hove into the headlines: "It's the first time a dog story made eight-column streamers on every front page in the country." The press gave full coverage to the challenging aspects of the Russian feat. But, in a spree of Muttnik jokes and doggerel, wry puns and photographic gags, it also served up laughter to a nation big enough to chuckle over...
...school solemnly ask his name and then go into fits of inexplicable laughter; or why a woman will suddenly become so very fat; or who is God. The boy's sense of loss is inextricably mixed with a sense of exhilaration, for "on this day everybody would treat him well, and even look up to him, for something had happened to him today which had not happened to any other boy in school, any other boy in town...