Word: treat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pigs & Digs. For Kukuruznik (corn man) Khrushchev, the big treat of the week was his trip to Iowa for an inspection of advanced farming practices, corn and beef production near Coon Rapids. His host: crag-faced, cranky Millionaire Roswell Garst, who has been to Russia twice to sell corn seed to the U.S.S.R. There amid the alien corn the Premier of the U.S.S.R., Garst, and the tenuous U.S.-Soviet relations nearly got trampled for good under a 300-man brigade of shouting, shoving newsmen (see PRESS...
...President, he received a monthly salary of $700, but much of it went to treat a pair of heart attacks and a stroke that left his left side paralyzed. When his salary, his savings and his term ran out, a friendly doctor treated him free. "I took massage and special exercises," says Cafe Filho. "I forced my muscles to move again." In 1956 Brazil's Varig airline flew him to the U.S. free for treatment by Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White...
When the fierce old Imam of Yemen clumped off to Rome five months ago to treat his arthritis, rheumatism, heart trouble (and reportedly drug addiction), all the malcontents produced by his eleven years of absolute rule thought they saw their chance. No sooner was the Imam gone than his troops mutinied, his courtiers began to intrigue, and tribal chieftains began to fight out their ancient grudges against each other. Swayed by Egyptian advice, the Imam's bumbling caretaker son. Crown Prince Badr, unsuccessfully tried to buy off the dissidents by promising "reforms"-the appointment of a representative council, more...
...facsimile of the First Folio all last winter, finally concluded that the author had scored it like music. Voice inflections, pitch, rhythms, everything seemed indicated by what would otherwise be pointless punctuation and irrational typography. "Elsa noticed it first, and I think she was the first to treat it that way. But it works! It works! Shakespeare tells you how to say every word...
...procurement, gas casualties and atom-bomb casualties. There were no gas casualties, but nitrogen mustard and related poisons, unused in war, eased the symptoms and prolonged the lives of some cancer patients. "Dusty" Rhoads revived the idea, then out of medical fashion, that drugs might yet be found to treat and even cure cancer...