Word: treat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...India the Maharaja of Jaipur was in his pink palace in his pink city, ready to greet American tourists, treat them to elephant rides and put them up in his guest house. In France's Dijon, knowing the U.S. tourists' unquenchable thirst for cold drinks, the Terminus Hotel has achieved a master stroke of plumbing: faucets in every room dispense chilled red or white wine. In Rome, bartenders will stir up a martini molto secco at the drop of a 500 lira note; half a dozen short order restaurants are pushing Southern fried chicken and barbecued spare ribs...
...whole approach is so straightforward and simple as to make a social worker despair. "The average kid who's had the rug pulled out from under him," says Director Allen Thomas, "is not sick. The experts have scared the wits out of laymen. The best way to treat a child, it seems to me, is to push here, guide there, play it by ear as any conscientious and unafraid father would...
...Veterans Administration Hospital phoned the State Board of Health to report "a patient under treatment for pneumonia of an unusual character." The doctor suspected psittacosis (parrot fever), and was right. It turned out that the patient, a laborer living in a skid row hotel, had been hired to help treat sick turkeys at a 7,000-bird farm on Sauvie Island. With proper antibiotic treatment the laborer is recovering, but 2,000 of the turkeys died. Of 1,500 turkeys at a smaller farm near Scappoose, 250 died...
Since women began, they have complained that they felt bloated and out of sorts in the last few days before menstruation. Physicians usually treat the problem lightly ("Mostly in the mind," many have said); not so London Drs. Iain and Pamela MacKinnon, a husband and wife team. They were impressed by recent trickles of medical evidence that women in the latter part of the menstrual cycle not only have cellular changes but are more prone at that period to commit crimes of violence and experience emotional instability. They checked 47 coroners' cases, and post-mortem examinations made it possible...
...Cumming's story about a man named Storey does not treat a very complex individual--the complexity is rather in Storey's situation as the white boss of a gang of Negro cottonpickers--yet the story itself is constructed with intricacy and maturity. By focussing on the irrational behavior of a feeble-minded, white cottonpicker, Cumming effectively portrays Storey's own loss of control with amazing brevity. Since the idot's situation can be stated more clearly and concisely than that of the maturer man, it serves as an excellent economizing device, while allowing the author to indulge his taste...