Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read the indictment, her long, blood-red fingernails fondled a corsage of tea roses at her shoulder as she cast a slow smile at her dapper defender, Major Luis Albarracin. Only flaw in her appearance was the dark line at the roots of her blonde hair. She gets special treatment at Madrid's women's prison, but her privileges do not include having a-hairdresser visit...
Thirteen Steps. It had been unseasonably warm in Tokyo, but on the last day it turned cold. The seven were notified of the execution time 15 hours beforehand. Tojo said, jokingly, in English: "Okay, okay." He thanked the prison warden for decent treatment, and said he had been afraid that he would be snatched from bed and executed so quickly that he would not have time to express properly his gratitude to the authorities...
...spot, which Jones described as "a slight seepage of joint secretion." It wasn't enough to force an ordinary horse out of competition, but Jones was taking no chances with his wonder horse. He loaded Citation on an express car for Florida and three months of rest and treatment. The news left some Southern Californians sorer than Citation's ankle. They wanted to see him run in two $100,000 races at Santa Anita...
...cures administered to psychotic calculators are weirdly like the modern cures for insanity. One method is to overload the calculator with an extra strong electrical impulse in hope that the shock will stop the machine's oscillations. This is rather like the shock treatment given to human psychotics. Another cure is to isolate part of the calculator's mechanism, hoping to cut off the source of trouble. This is "like the lobotomies which brain surgeons perform. Lobotomies sometimes work (for both machine and brain) but are apt to reduce, in both cases, the subject's judgment...
...Great American Novel." Indiana's Ross Lockridge (who later committed suicide) made a stab at it; he brought home a huge, Ulysses-like animal named Raintree County, which was hailed by critics as a monumental attempt and then floated away in an embarrassed silence. Silence was the kindest treatment of Remembrance Rock, Carl Sandburg's large, muddled, impassioned effort to learn lessons for the future from a study of the American past...