Word: treat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like many U.S. wives, Mamie Eisenhower manages the family finances, and, after years in the handling of a prewar officer's pay, still has a tendency to treat each dollar with great care. In Paris, she attends dress shows but rarely buys. "Do you see me paying $800 or $900 for a dress?" she cries. If she is complimented on a hat, she is likely to say that she saw it in an advertisement in the Sunday New York Times, and bought it by mail for $16.95. She is a doting grandmother, and writes weekly to her son, Infantry...
...pain, either yang or yin is getting out of hand. Sometimes a gentle jab with the gold (yang) or silver (yin) needle will do the trick; often it takes a bit of both. Testimony from Tunis. Only last month, said a French delegate, he had been asked to treat a bull suffering from "a hopeless case of sterility." After the bull got the needles, he went charging off in pursuit of four cows. And, said the puncturist, two of the cows are already in calf. A Tunisian specialist reported the case of a man, aged 30, suffering from depression, pains...
...Amsterdam Stock Exchange, bustling center of Dutch financial life, stopped all trading last week. Like so many of Europe's troubles, the reason for the stoppage dated back to the war. When the Germans overran The Netherlands in 1940, they helped themselves to a giant Dutch treat: all Jewish-owned stocks, bonds and other assets were expropriated and deposited with a Nazi-controlled company which took the name of Amsterdam's famed Lippmann, Rosenthal & Co. For a while, the Nazis' Lippmann, Rosenthal preserved the myth of Jewish ownership, credited the original security owners with accrued dividends...
Lynch said that he proposed the men sure because "he wanted to call to the attention of the authorities that "they're just kids up there-and there's a proper way to treat them." "Right now they're running around like their heads were cut off", he added...
...protection of wounded left on battlefields. It was later revised and enlarged to extend protection to other victims of war, including prisoners. The latest revision was signed in 1949 by 61 nations, including the U.S. and Soviet Russia. In general, it provides that the "detaining power" must treat its prisoners humanely, providing adequate food, shelter, clothing, recreational facilities, medical care, etc. The Convention forbids "collective punishment for individual acts, corporal punishment, imprisonment in premises without daylight, and in general, any form of torture or cruelty...