Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Uncle John," as the comrades call him, started out as a barber's apprentice in Volos, Thessaly, rose rapidly in the Red hierarchy, and by 1928 was important enough to go to Russia for indoctrination and treatment in a tuberculosis sanatorium. Exile, jail, conspiracy and murder have long since become his familiars. Recently a rebel deserter was asked if Uncle John had any hobby. The ex-rebel drew a forefinger across his throat and answered: "Counting heads...
Protestant churchmen were outraged. When police refused to take the boxes from his church, Canon Walter Simpson of St. Bartholomew's cried: "The law was invoked to compel me to submit to treatment which was an offense to my conscience as a citizen and a Christian priest." Costello's boxes gleaned about ?51,000, but the collection so outraged the Orangemen that they poured out to the polls as never before. Dublin's Protestant Irish Times crowed that Costello's collection was worth 60,000 votes for the Unionists in the resentful North...
...Special Treatment. They called a "progressive" strike (an hour's work stoppage the first night, 1½ hours the second, etc.). Eva Perón's Democracia got special treatment: a stoppage plus a slowdown. For strikebreakers, Eva called in convicts from Buenos Aires' federal penitentiary. The convicts refused to work. Democracia was among the first papers to suspend publication...
...five days last week in Manhattan's Statler Hotel, some 12,000 parents, doctors and social workers turned out for the first National Conference on Cerebral Palsy. Research and slow, tedious treatment have proved that 75% of the cerebral palsied can be rehabilitated; many have above-normal intelligence...
...austere way, March personifies the awful tragedy of a man whose love for his wife is so great that he will even kill her to alleviate her suffering. This film is convincing proof that the most hopelessly overworked subject matter can become worthwhile entertainment with proper treatment...