Word: treat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large university for a winning ball club. Sometimes it is simply no more nor less than academic integrity. Quite an exacting price. So there you sit: impaled on the horns of a dilemma. Be honest, excite your students and agitate for good football. Pay the knowing tribute. Or, treat the Saturday efforts completely realistically, tell the students to bring a bottle to the field and at least have a good drunk to show for their Saturday afternoon. Or, be aloof, forget the game in the Saturday columns. Be practical, only bring the CRIMSON out five days a week...
...reason curanderas are popular is that they charge less than doctors. Furthermore, they treat ailments that doctors cannot touch. Only brujas can cure children of the evil-eye sickness (one way is to rub the child's forehead with an herb called tronadora). Doctors can do little for the pangs of unlucky love, but any bruja worth her fee knows that a dried hummingbird pinned inside a girl's dress will usually bring back a strayed lover...
...caught hold, and multiplied with raging speed. By winter, 1,459 schoolchildren had infected scalps, and the Soo was in the midst of the worst ringworm epidemic ever recorded north of the Rio Grande. Itching heads were thrust under ultraviolet lamps to make the disease show up, shaved, scrubbed, treated with salves, and encased in sterile white cotton caps to prevent spreading. Doctors tried new drugs by the score. Special X-ray clinics were set up, and skilled radiologists were brought in to treat the itchy youngsters...
...College would have scaled the doom of the small University Hall Commons sooner or later, the immediate cause of its end was a growing tendency on the part of students to eat elsewhere as often as possible, and when they did chance to dine in Commons, to treat it as a sort of unofficial playground and circus area...
...Bishop of Coventry, Dr. Neville Gorton, in a leaflet to his clergy. "The inn is not to be despised, though certainly not to be haunted. It is wise to have one's 'usual' and to pay for it oneself. Men may seem willing to treat one, but they do not like a man who never treats back. They will never believe that we [clergymen] cannot afford...