Word: treat
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Since the boys cannot go on camping trips, they earn their merit badges by telling the leaders how to follow a trail, how to build a fire, how to treat blisters, burns and snakebites. Most of them have learned to identify trees and to tell directions in the woods. Although many of the physically handicapped are confined to wheelchairs with cerebral palsy, polio, arthritis or paraplegia, they have proved remarkably adept at mastering certain basic normal skills, e.g., tying knots, which some of the boys can do only by using their teeth. The mentally retarded boys have learned the simpler...
Today, Dave Stephens has well-heeled admirers who are willing to treat him to spiked shoes. His self-confidence is picking up, too. "I'd like to set new world records," says he, looking well past the coming Olympics. "I'm planning for six years ahead. By then, I hope I'll be able to run 6 miles in 27 minutes and 3 miles in 13 minutes. It's possible; after all, they climbed Everest, didn't they...
Noting the wiry little man whom everyone in town seemed to treat with such respect, the visitor to Albuquerque, N. Mex. (pop. 160,000) naturally wanted to know who he was. The person he asked was a six-year-old Negro first-grader who happened to have his own ideas about School Superintendent John Milne. "You don't know who Mr. Milne is?" said the boy in amazement. "Why, Mr. Milne is boss of the whole world!" To hundreds of Albuquerque teachers and students, John Milne has indeed been a rare sort of boss. In his 45 years...
...still be "capable of feeling, hearing and remembering things that happen in operating rooms," Harvard University's Dr. Philip Solomon told the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists in Manhattan. As a result of such improper anesthesia, he said, psychiatrists and other mental-health workers sometimes have to treat people who suffer from operating-room memories...
Says Dorle: "I treat my records like artists. They are alive, like artists going into your home. I can't treat records like pancakes...