Word: treating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought Brooke Shields looked just nifty in her Calvins? Wrong - according to Fashion Designer Mr. Blackwell. The 15-year-old sex symbol's grownup getups earned her first place on Blackwell's annual list of worst-dressed women. "She looks like a Halloween trick without the treat," he sniffs. "Her mother should be totally condemned for this...
...science, felt that drastic measures were needed. She stunned the campus by announcing that because of "financial exigency," 25 out of 35 full-time faculty (including several tenured teachers) were to be fired. The administration asked librarians and an admissions recruiter to double as classroom teachers during the emergency. Treat Hall, the administration building, would be closed to cut heating bills. A third of the elm-shaded 50-acre campus in Denver's choice Park Hill neighborhood was being put up for sale...
...ground zero, fire storms would devastate all buildings and trees. Of the 3 million inhabitants of metropolitan Boston, 2.2 million would be killed outright. Almost every survivor would be maimed, burned or in shock. Of the 6,000 physicians in the area, only 900 would be fit enough to treat the injured. In time, survivors would develop new and virtually incurable ailments, such as severe radiation poisoning and reactions to contaminated food and water...
...creator Segar put it: "I'd like to cut loose and knock the heck out of a lot of people, but my good judgement and size hold me back. Instead I use my imagination and let the sailor do the scrapping." Of course, Popeye never used force unjustifiably. "Treat ever' body right and if they steps on ya, sock 'em!" was his motto. The comic strip did not glorify but rather burlesqued violence, turning it into slapstick. He became and remains an incongrous folk hero--a cross between one of the Stooges and Superman...
...accorded the so-called Bonus Marchers -a plucky contingent of some 20,000 veterans who, invading Washington to demand bonus money, got instead an official bum's rush from Congress, backed up by troops commanded by Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur. Was that any way to treat men who fought in the war? The World War, that is. It did not yet own a Roman numeral...